Peace and Patriotism: Selections from Poetry and ProseLothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1919 - 318 pages |
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... Deep in the brightness of the skies The thronging years in glory rise , And , as they fleet , Drop strength and riches at thy feet . Thine eye , with every coming hour , Shall brighten , and thy form shall tower ; And when thy sisters ...
... Deep in the brightness of the skies The thronging years in glory rise , And , as they fleet , Drop strength and riches at thy feet . Thine eye , with every coming hour , Shall brighten , and thy form shall tower ; And when thy sisters ...
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... , Ere on the western steep I sprang to height , reborn : Then what a joyous shout The quickened lands gave out , And all the choir of morn Sang anthems deep . " Beneath yon firmament , The New World to the PATRIOTISM 43.
... , Ere on the western steep I sprang to height , reborn : Then what a joyous shout The quickened lands gave out , And all the choir of morn Sang anthems deep . " Beneath yon firmament , The New World to the PATRIOTISM 43.
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... deep His soul its watch shall keep , Till Love shall make the world a holy place , Where Knowledge dares unveil God's very face . Not yet the angels hear life's last sweet song . Music unutterably pure and strong From earth shall rise ...
... deep His soul its watch shall keep , Till Love shall make the world a holy place , Where Knowledge dares unveil God's very face . Not yet the angels hear life's last sweet song . Music unutterably pure and strong From earth shall rise ...
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... deep roar , How oft it has gathered renown , While those stars were reflected in rivers of gore , Where the cross and the lion went down ; And though few were their lights in the gloom of that hour , Yet the hearts that were striking ...
... deep roar , How oft it has gathered renown , While those stars were reflected in rivers of gore , Where the cross and the lion went down ; And though few were their lights in the gloom of that hour , Yet the hearts that were striking ...
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... deep , Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes , What is that which the breeze , o'er the towering steep , As it fitfully blows , half conceals , half discloses ? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam , In ...
... deep , Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes , What is that which the breeze , o'er the towering steep , As it fitfully blows , half conceals , half discloses ? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam , In ...
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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
Popular passages
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.