National LyricsFields, Osgood & Company, 1865 - 104 pages |
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... fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain ; To us , whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light— Say , shall these writhing slaves of Wrong , Plead vainly for their plundered Right ? What ! shall we send , with ...
... fathers scorned to bear The paltry menace of a chain ; To us , whose boast is loud and long Of holy Liberty and Light— Say , shall these writhing slaves of Wrong , Plead vainly for their plundered Right ? What ! shall we send , with ...
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... fathers saw - The awful waste of human life- - The glory and the guilt of war : But break the chain -the yoke remove , And smite to earth Oppression's rod , With those mild arms of Truth and Love , Made mighty through the living God ...
... fathers saw - The awful waste of human life- - The glory and the guilt of war : But break the chain -the yoke remove , And smite to earth Oppression's rod , With those mild arms of Truth and Love , Made mighty through the living God ...
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... Father down ! To all who plunder from the immortal mind Its bright and glorious crown ! Woe to the priesthood ! woe To those whose hire is with the price of blood — Perverting , darkening , changing as they go , The searching truths of ...
... Father down ! To all who plunder from the immortal mind Its bright and glorious crown ! Woe to the priesthood ! woe To those whose hire is with the price of blood — Perverting , darkening , changing as they go , The searching truths of ...
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John Greenleaf Whittier. STANZAS FOR THE TIMES . S this the land our fathers loved , IS The freedom which they toiled to win ? Is this the soil whereon they moved ? Are these the graves they slumber in ? Are we the sons by whom are borne ...
John Greenleaf Whittier. STANZAS FOR THE TIMES . S this the land our fathers loved , IS The freedom which they toiled to win ? Is this the soil whereon they moved ? Are these the graves they slumber in ? Are we the sons by whom are borne ...
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... fathers taught is vain - That Freedom's emblem is the chain ? - Its life- its soul , from slavery drawn ? False - foul - profane ! Go teach as well - Of holy Truth from Falsehood born ! Of Heaven refreshed by airs from Hell ! Of Virtue ...
... fathers taught is vain - That Freedom's emblem is the chain ? - Its life- its soul , from slavery drawn ? False - foul - profane ! Go teach as well - Of holy Truth from Falsehood born ! Of Heaven refreshed by airs from Hell ! Of Virtue ...
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altars angels axe in twain BARBARA FRIETCHIE battle's axe became Our hate beneath blessed blood blow breath calm cast our country's Colchian country's horoscope curse dank and lone dark darker cloud moves dead earth Egypt's wave eyes Faneuil Hall fathers feet we cast fetters fire is guide flag Freedom's war God's gone sold grave gray hath heart Heaven holy human J.P.DAVIS SC land Liberty lips look Lord lords of Chios Massachusetts mined and heaved MITHRIDATES Moloch Mother mountain mountain men nebber you hear Northern o'er pain pen We erred prayer rice-swamp dank rolled the storm round Saxon scorn sea than Egypt's sets the sighing shadow fall shorn by battle's slave slavery Slavery's Slaves-crouching sold and gone song soul star of Wormwood stolen daughters strength nor zeal sunny valleys tears thee thine thou To-day tread truth Virginia's hills voice wave Is piled wild winds words wrong Ximena