Peace and Patriotism: Selections from Poetry and ProseLothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1919 - 318 pages |
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... of the West ; How faith is kept , and truth revered , And man is loved , and God is feared , In woodland homes , And where the ocean border foams . -- There's freedom at thy gates and rest For Earth's down PATRIOTISM 27 27.
... of the West ; How faith is kept , and truth revered , And man is loved , and God is feared , In woodland homes , And where the ocean border foams . -- There's freedom at thy gates and rest For Earth's down PATRIOTISM 27 27.
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... sages , Foretold when martyrs bled , She was born of the longing of ages , By the truth of the noble dead And the faith of the living fed ! No blood in her lightest veins Frets at remembered chains 28 PEACE AND PATRIOTISM.
... sages , Foretold when martyrs bled , She was born of the longing of ages , By the truth of the noble dead And the faith of the living fed ! No blood in her lightest veins Frets at remembered chains 28 PEACE AND PATRIOTISM.
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... faith , the crown of song ! ODE : JULY 4 , 1857 RALPH WALDO EMERSON O TENDERLY the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire ; One morn is in the mighty heaven , And one in our desire . The cannon booms from town to town , Our pulses ...
... faith , the crown of song ! ODE : JULY 4 , 1857 RALPH WALDO EMERSON O TENDERLY the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire ; One morn is in the mighty heaven , And one in our desire . The cannon booms from town to town , Our pulses ...
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... faith triumphant o'er our fears , Are all with thee , are all with thee ! AFTER all , ONE COUNTRY 1 FRANK L. STANTON One country , brethren ! We must rise or fall With the Supreme Republic . We must be The makers of her immortality ...
... faith triumphant o'er our fears , Are all with thee , are all with thee ! AFTER all , ONE COUNTRY 1 FRANK L. STANTON One country , brethren ! We must rise or fall With the Supreme Republic . We must be The makers of her immortality ...
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... Faith in man . Give these thy worship ; then no fears Of future foes need fright thy soul ; Triumphant thou shalt mount the years Toward thy high goal ! AMERICA Extract from The Centennial Cantata SIDNEY LANIER Now Praise to God's oft ...
... Faith in man . Give these thy worship ; then no fears Of future foes need fright thy soul ; Triumphant thou shalt mount the years Toward thy high goal ! AMERICA Extract from The Centennial Cantata SIDNEY LANIER Now Praise to God's oft ...
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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.