National LyricsFields, Osgood & Company, 1865 - 104 pages |
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... song . Upon us fell in early youth The burden of unwelcome truth , And left us , weak and frail and few , The censor's painful work to do . Thenceforth our life a fight became , The air we breathed was hot with blame ; For not with ...
... song . Upon us fell in early youth The burden of unwelcome truth , And left us , weak and frail and few , The censor's painful work to do . Thenceforth our life a fight became , The air we breathed was hot with blame ; For not with ...
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... songs of the Rhine The German - born pilgrims , who first dared to brave The scorn of the proud in the cause of the slave : · Will the sons of such men yield the lords of the South One brow for the brand - for the padlock one mouth ...
... songs of the Rhine The German - born pilgrims , who first dared to brave The scorn of the proud in the cause of the slave : · Will the sons of such men yield the lords of the South One brow for the brand - for the padlock one mouth ...
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... Song A classic beauty throwing , And laurelled Clio at his side Her storied pages showing . All parties feared him : each in turn Beheld its schemes disjointed , As right or left his fatal glance And spectral finger pointed . Sworn foe ...
... Song A classic beauty throwing , And laurelled Clio at his side Her storied pages showing . All parties feared him : each in turn Beheld its schemes disjointed , As right or left his fatal glance And spectral finger pointed . Sworn foe ...
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... song that Bethlehem's shepherds knew ! The harp of David melting through The demon - agonies of Saul ! - Not as we hoped ; — but what are we ? Above our broken dreams and plans God lays , with wiser hand than man's , The corner - stones ...
... song that Bethlehem's shepherds knew ! The harp of David melting through The demon - agonies of Saul ! - Not as we hoped ; — but what are we ? Above our broken dreams and plans God lays , with wiser hand than man's , The corner - stones ...
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... songs our groans of pain ; She mocks with tint of flower and leaf The war - field's crimson stain . Still , in the cannon's pause , we hear Her sweet thanksgiving - psalm ; Too near to God for doubt or fear , She shares th ' eternal ...
... songs our groans of pain ; She mocks with tint of flower and leaf The war - field's crimson stain . Still , in the cannon's pause , we hear Her sweet thanksgiving - psalm ; Too near to God for doubt or fear , She shares th ' eternal ...
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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