Peace and Patriotism: Selections from Poetry and ProseLothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1919 - 318 pages |
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... spirit of patriotism and loyalty is generally recognized and need not be dwelt upon here ; for , whatever the new international order , the " spur of the old bards to mighty deeds " will surely still be needed . One result of the ...
... spirit of patriotism and loyalty is generally recognized and need not be dwelt upon here ; for , whatever the new international order , the " spur of the old bards to mighty deeds " will surely still be needed . One result of the ...
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... Spirit Speaks " ; Mr. Finley and Charles Scribner's Sons : " The Soldiers ' Recessional . " Mr. Hermann Hagedorn and The Outlook Company : Pyres . " " The Mr. Frederick L. Hosmer and The Beacon Press : " Hear , O Ye Nations " and " Our ...
... Spirit Speaks " ; Mr. Finley and Charles Scribner's Sons : " The Soldiers ' Recessional . " Mr. Hermann Hagedorn and The Outlook Company : Pyres . " " The Mr. Frederick L. Hosmer and The Beacon Press : " Hear , O Ye Nations " and " Our ...
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... Spirit of Lincoln , " from " Lincoln , and Other Poems . " Miss Harriet Monroe : Extract from " Columbian Ode . " Thomas Nelson & Sons : " Vitaļ Lampada , " by Sir Henry Newbolt . Mr. Alfred Noyes : " Princeton , May , 1917 " ; Mr ...
... Spirit of Lincoln , " from " Lincoln , and Other Poems . " Miss Harriet Monroe : Extract from " Columbian Ode . " Thomas Nelson & Sons : " Vitaļ Lampada , " by Sir Henry Newbolt . Mr. Alfred Noyes : " Princeton , May , 1917 " ; Mr ...
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... Spirit . " Miss Edith M. Thomas and The New York Times : " Britons and Guests . " Harr Wagner Publishing Company : " A Song for Peace , " by Joaquin Miller . Mr. G. E. Woodberry and The Macmillan Company : " America to England " and ...
... Spirit . " Miss Edith M. Thomas and The New York Times : " Britons and Guests . " Harr Wagner Publishing Company : " A Song for Peace , " by Joaquin Miller . Mr. G. E. Woodberry and The Macmillan Company : " America to England " and ...
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... SPIRIT THE PATRIOT HYMN AMERICA TO BRITAIN AMERICA . • GREAT Nathan Haskell Dole Washington Allston · · John Addington Symonds .. Samuel Longfellow • · · · · · · · · · · • · · · · • . Edward Rowland Sill · · • · · · • • · • · · Sydney ...
... SPIRIT THE PATRIOT HYMN AMERICA TO BRITAIN AMERICA . • GREAT Nathan Haskell Dole Washington Allston · · John Addington Symonds .. Samuel Longfellow • · · · · · · · · · · • · · · · • . Edward Rowland Sill · · • · · · • • · • · · Sydney ...
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ages America angels arms banner battle beauty beneath blood blue born brave breath brother comes common crown dare dark death deed dream earth Extract eyes face fair faith fall fathers fear field fight fire flag flowers foes France Freedom give glorious glory grow hand happy hath hear heart heaven heroes holy honor hope human Italy justice King land Liberty light live look Lord man's means mind morning mountains nations never night o'er once peace praise race Ring rise round rule shine side sing skies song sons soul sound speak spirit stand stars strife strong sweet sword thee thine things thou thought true truth United victory voice wave whole wrong
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Page 241 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride, No ; men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state, And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 39 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, . ' Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 125 - But everybody said," quoth he, "that 'twas a famous victory. My father lived at Blenheim then, yon little stream hard by; they burnt his dwelling to the ground, and he was forced to fly: so with his wife and child he fled, nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 78 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble, free. Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills: My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 206 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
Page 81 - He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword ; His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps ; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps ; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps. His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel : " As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal...
Page 227 - King! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us! God save the King!
Page 173 - And ye, beneath life's crushing load Whose forms are bending low ; Who toil along the climbing way With painful steps and slow, — Look now ! for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on the wing; O, rest beside the weary road, And hear the angels sing.
Page 81 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me ; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on...
Page 239 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.