The Life and Poems of Theodore WinthropH. Holt, 1884 - 313 pages |
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Page 302 - O Beautiful ! my Country ! ours once more ! Smoothing thy gold of war-dishevelled hair O'er such sweet brows as never other wore, And letting thy set lips, Freed from wrath's pale eclipse, The rosy edges of their smile lay bare, What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it, Among the Nations bright beyond compare ? What were our lives without thee? What all our lives to save thee ? We reck not what we gave thee ; We will not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever...
Page 301 - O brother ! if thine eye can see, Tell how and when the end shall be, What hope remains for thee and me." Then Freedom sternly said : "I shun No strife nor pang beneath the sun, When human rights are staked and won.
Page 162 - And in all that period while I was so near to Nature, the great lessons of the wilderness deepened into my heart day by day, the hedges of conventionalism withered away from my horizon, and all the pedantries of scholastic thought perished out of my mind forever.
Page 169 - mid tempest and wrath, Breezes are skirmishing, angry winds roar ; While poised on some desperate plunge of our path, We count up the blackening wrecks on the shore.
Page 171 - But da}r is a friend to our standards, and shame Be ours, if we win not a victory ! Man is nobler than men have been, Souls are vaster than souls have dreamed ; There are broader oceans than eyes have seen, Noons more glowing than yet have beamed.
Page 294 - ... use." In this spirit he acted, and such was his evident ability that in a month he was aid and military secretary to General Butler, and held at his disposal a first lieutenancy in the army. He lost his life in the expedition that left Fort Monroe. June 9, 1861, at Bethel, the rebel riflemen stating that they several times took deliberate aim at him, as he was all the time conspicuous at the head of the advancing Federal troops, loudly cheering them on to the assault He was shot in the side.
Page 171 - When shall we cease our meagre distrust? When to each other our true hearts yield ? To make this world an Eden, we must Fling away each weapon and shield, And meet each man as a friend and mate, Trample and spurn and forget our pride, Glad to accept an equal fate, Laboring, conquering side by side.
Page 134 - The general tone is bricky and dusty, almost all the new buildings being substantial fireproof brick of one story. It may safely be called the dirtiest place in the world. "A single day will transform it from a slough, navigable only in a pair of gaff-topsail boots, to an ankle-deep dustpan ; and when you consider that besides the immense street traffic, there is hardly a half block where they are not cutting, or filling, or building, or pulling down, you may imagine that the springy plank pavements...
Page 296 - ... Colonel Townsend's cooperation, when this plan was defeated by the gross blunder of whoever was in command of Townsend's left — a captain I believe — in allowing three companies to become detached from the main body by a thicket. From this circumstance Townsend, as he was proceeding to the attack, was led to believe, as he saw the bayonets of his own men glistening through the foliage, that he was outflanked. Ho retreated, and that was the end of the battle.