Peace and Patriotism: Selections from Poetry and ProseLothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1919 - 318 pages |
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... means Liberty ; and the galley - slave , the poor , oppressed conscript , the trodden - down crea- ture of foreign despotism , sees in the American flag that very promise and prediction of God , - " The people which sat in darkness saw ...
... means Liberty ; and the galley - slave , the poor , oppressed conscript , the trodden - down crea- ture of foreign despotism , sees in the American flag that very promise and prediction of God , - " The people which sat in darkness saw ...
Page 63
... means just what Concord and Lexington meant , what Bunker Hill meant ; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War , which was , in short , the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny , to establish the most ...
... means just what Concord and Lexington meant , what Bunker Hill meant ; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War , which was , in short , the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny , to establish the most ...
Page 64
... means , and , by the blessing of God , that it shall mean to the end of time ! THE FLAG GOES BY HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT HATS off ! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles , a ruffle of drums , A flash of color beneath the sky ...
... means , and , by the blessing of God , that it shall mean to the end of time ! THE FLAG GOES BY HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT HATS off ! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles , a ruffle of drums , A flash of color beneath the sky ...
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... means that it is a day when we are to recall the things which we should do every day of our lives . There are no days of special patriotism . There are no days when we should be more patriotic than on other days . We celebrate the ...
... means that it is a day when we are to recall the things which we should do every day of our lives . There are no days of special patriotism . There are no days when we should be more patriotic than on other days . We celebrate the ...
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... means far different be attained , Without ambition , war or violence— By deeds of peace , by wisdom eminent , By patience , temperance . PEACE Extract from Britannia JAMES THOMSON O FIRST of human blessings , and supreme , Fair Peace ...
... means far different be attained , Without ambition , war or violence— By deeds of peace , by wisdom eminent , By patience , temperance . PEACE Extract from Britannia JAMES THOMSON O FIRST of human blessings , and supreme , Fair Peace ...
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Common terms and phrases
ALFRED NOYES ALFRED TENNYSON America angels Antonio Stradivari arms banner battle beauty beneath blood brave breath brothers Christ crown dare dark dawn death deed Dié doth dream earth eternal eyes fair faith fame fathers fear fight flag foes Freedom Garcia GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY glorious glory hail hand hath hear heart heaven heaven shall burn HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW heroes holy honor hope JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER JULIA WARD justice King kneel land Laon Laon and St light live Lord man's message to Garcia morning mountains NATHAN HASKELL DOLE nations night noble o'er OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES praise proud Ring rise shine shore sing skies slaves smile song soul spirit stand star-spangled banner stars strife strong sweet sword thee thine things thou toil true truth tyrants unfurled victory violins voice wave weary white and blue
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.