National LyricsFields, Osgood & Company, 1865 - 104 pages |
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... with awe , The coming of the sword we saw ; We ' heard the nearing steps of doom , And saw the shade of things to come . In grief which they alone can feel Who from a mother's wrong appeal , With blended lines of fear and hope We cast our.
... with awe , The coming of the sword we saw ; We ' heard the nearing steps of doom , And saw the shade of things to come . In grief which they alone can feel Who from a mother's wrong appeal , With blended lines of fear and hope We cast our.
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... Wrong , Plead vainly for their plundered Right ? What ! shall we send , with lavish breath , Our sympathies across the wave , Where Manhood , on the field of death , Strikes for his freedom , or a grave ? Shall prayers go up , and hymns ...
... Wrong , Plead vainly for their plundered Right ? What ! shall we send , with lavish breath , Our sympathies across the wave , Where Manhood , on the field of death , Strikes for his freedom , or a grave ? Shall prayers go up , and hymns ...
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... ! how long Shall such a priesthood barter truth away , And , in thy name , for robbery and wrong At thy own altars pray ? Is not thy hand stretched forth Visibly in the heavens CLERICAL OPPRESSORS . II CLERICAL OPPRESSORS.
... ! how long Shall such a priesthood barter truth away , And , in thy name , for robbery and wrong At thy own altars pray ? Is not thy hand stretched forth Visibly in the heavens CLERICAL OPPRESSORS . II CLERICAL OPPRESSORS.
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... speed the moment on When Wrong shall cease - - and Liberty , and Love , And Truth , and Right , throughout the earth be known As in their home above . THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE . CHRISTIAN ! going , gone ! 12 NATIONAL LYRICS .
... speed the moment on When Wrong shall cease - - and Liberty , and Love , And Truth , and Right , throughout the earth be known As in their home above . THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE . CHRISTIAN ! going , gone ! 12 NATIONAL LYRICS .
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... wrong and shame , Her patience shall not fail ! A heathen hand might deal Back on your heads the gathered wrong of years , But her low , broken prayer and nightly tears , Ye neither heed nor feel . Con well thy lesson o'er , Thou ...
... wrong and shame , Her patience shall not fail ! A heathen hand might deal Back on your heads the gathered wrong of years , But her low , broken prayer and nightly tears , Ye neither heed nor feel . Con well thy lesson o'er , Thou ...
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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