National LyricsFields, Osgood & Company, 1865 - 104 pages |
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... turn , and ask the like of us ! " Just God ! and shall we calmly rest , the heathen's mirth The Christian's scorn Content to live the lingering jest And by - word of a mocking Earth ? - Shall our own glorious land retain That curse ...
... turn , and ask the like of us ! " Just God ! and shall we calmly rest , the heathen's mirth The Christian's scorn Content to live the lingering jest And by - word of a mocking Earth ? - Shall our own glorious land retain That curse ...
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... turn Judgment aside , and rob the Holy Book Of those high words of truth which search and burn In warning and rebuke ; Feed fat , ye locusts , feed ! And , in your tasselled pulpits , thank the Lord That , from the toiling bondman's ...
... turn Judgment aside , and rob the Holy Book Of those high words of truth which search and burn In warning and rebuke ; Feed fat , ye locusts , feed ! And , in your tasselled pulpits , thank the Lord That , from the toiling bondman's ...
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... turning to the sacred Kebla feels His fetters break and fall . Cheers for the turbaned Bey Of robber - peopled Tunis ! he hath torn The dark slave - dungeons open , and hath borne Their inmates into day : But our poor slave in vain Turns ...
... turning to the sacred Kebla feels His fetters break and fall . Cheers for the turbaned Bey Of robber - peopled Tunis ! he hath torn The dark slave - dungeons open , and hath borne Their inmates into day : But our poor slave in vain Turns ...
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... Turn back the spirit roused to save The Truth , our Country , and the Slave ? Of human skulls that shrine was made , Round which the priests of Mexico Before their loathsome idol prayed , · Is Freedom's altar fashioned so ? And must we ...
... Turn back the spirit roused to save The Truth , our Country , and the Slave ? Of human skulls that shrine was made , Round which the priests of Mexico Before their loathsome idol prayed , · Is Freedom's altar fashioned so ? And must we ...
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... turn , A world's reproach around us burn ? Is ' t not enough that this is borne ? And asks our haughty neighbor more ? Must fetters which his slaves have worn , ' Clank round the Yankee farmer's door ? Must he be told , beside his ...
... turn , A world's reproach around us burn ? Is ' t not enough that this is borne ? And asks our haughty neighbor more ? Must fetters which his slaves have worn , ' Clank round the Yankee farmer's door ? Must he be told , beside his ...
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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