The Primary Union Speaker: Containing Original and Selected Pieces for Declamation and Recitation in Primary SchoolsTaggard & Thompson, 1866 - 159 pages |
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... land That shook with horror at thy fall . Thy task is done ; the bond are free ; We bear thee to an honored grave , Whose proudest monument shall be The broken fetters of the slave . Pure was thy life ; its bloody close Hath placed thee ...
... land That shook with horror at thy fall . Thy task is done ; the bond are free ; We bear thee to an honored grave , Whose proudest monument shall be The broken fetters of the slave . Pure was thy life ; its bloody close Hath placed thee ...
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... land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned , As home his footsteps he hath turned , From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there be , go , mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles , proud ...
... land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned , As home his footsteps he hath turned , From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there be , go , mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles , proud ...
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... land rent with civil feuds , or drenched , it may be , in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic , now known and honored throughout the earth , still full high ...
... land rent with civil feuds , or drenched , it may be , in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic , now known and honored throughout the earth , still full high ...
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... land there is light without any cloud , and flowers that never fade . Myriads of happy souls are there , singing praises to God . This country is Heaven ; it is the country of those that are good ; and nothing that is wicked must ...
... land there is light without any cloud , and flowers that never fade . Myriads of happy souls are there , singing praises to God . This country is Heaven ; it is the country of those that are good ; and nothing that is wicked must ...
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... land and sea , and wouldst thou hack it down ? Woodman , forbear thy stroke ! cut not its earth - bound ties ; Oh , spare that aged oak , now towering to the skies . When but an idle boy , I sought its grateful shade ; In all their ...
... land and sea , and wouldst thou hack it down ? Woodman , forbear thy stroke ! cut not its earth - bound ties ; Oh , spare that aged oak , now towering to the skies . When but an idle boy , I sought its grateful shade ; In all their ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN anvils rang art bearing battle beautiful birds Bobolink brave bright buttercups calyx cheer child corolla Cricket cried daisy darling little girl dead dear doth Excelsior Father fear flag flowers Fort Sumter Freddy friends gentleman give glorious glory Good-by grave grow hand happy heard heart heaven hope Hurrah I'm five idle Jenny Jerry Jones John Kate kill King lessons light little boy Little white Lily lives Lizzie look Maria Mary morning mother naturally arch Nelly nest never say fail nice night o'er Paul peace on earth petals pistil play poor pretty rain Robert Reid rose scholar Second Voice sepals shining sing slave snow song Speak gently stamens stamens and pistils star sure sweet teacher thee things thou thoughts to-day tree truth violet weeds words young youth
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Page 39 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; — Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes...
Page 129 - Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.
Page 103 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Page 26 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 88 - Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior! "Oh stay," the maiden said, "and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!
Page 19 - ... is a book, who runs may read, Which heavenly truth imparts, And all the lore its scholars need, Pure eyes and Christian hearts. 2 The works of God, above, below, Within us and around, Are pages in that book to show How God Himself is found.
Page 21 - Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.
Page 93 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Page 73 - SPEAK gently ! it is better far To rule by love than fear ; Speak gently ! let no harsh words mar The good we might do here.
Page 147 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.