Peace and Patriotism: Selections from Poetry and ProseLothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1919 - 318 pages |
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... of war , or the blessings of a world - wide peace , the writers have not in all cases distinguished clearly between the righteous and the unrighteous cause of warfare ; but it is , we may consider , the unjust and aggressive 8 PREFACE.
... of war , or the blessings of a world - wide peace , the writers have not in all cases distinguished clearly between the righteous and the unrighteous cause of warfare ; but it is , we may consider , the unjust and aggressive 8 PREFACE.
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... wide range of time . Modern writ- ers are represented as well as the older standard Eng- lish and American authors ; but no attempt has been made to form an exhaustive compilation . The plan and scope of the volume have necessarily ...
... wide range of time . Modern writ- ers are represented as well as the older standard Eng- lish and American authors ; but no attempt has been made to form an exhaustive compilation . The plan and scope of the volume have necessarily ...
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... wide - embracing shores ; Till , fold by fold , the broidered Land To swell her virgin vestments grew , While sages , strong in heart and hand , Her virtue's fiery girdle drew . O Exile of the wrath of Kings ! O Pilgrim Ark of Liberty ...
... wide - embracing shores ; Till , fold by fold , the broidered Land To swell her virgin vestments grew , While sages , strong in heart and hand , Her virtue's fiery girdle drew . O Exile of the wrath of Kings ! O Pilgrim Ark of Liberty ...
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... wide seas , unswept by earthly sails , Those strange sounds draw thee on , for thou shalt be Leader of nations through the autumnal gales That wait to mock the strong and wreck the free . Dearer , more radiant than of yore , Against the ...
... wide seas , unswept by earthly sails , Those strange sounds draw thee on , for thou shalt be Leader of nations through the autumnal gales That wait to mock the strong and wreck the free . Dearer , more radiant than of yore , Against the ...
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... rings the Nation's cry , - Union and Liberty ! One Evermore ! Light of our firmament , guide of our Nation , Pride of her children , and honored afar , Let the wide beams of thy full constellation Scatter each 72 PEACE AND PATRIOTISM.
... rings the Nation's cry , - Union and Liberty ! One Evermore ! Light of our firmament , guide of our Nation , Pride of her children , and honored afar , Let the wide beams of thy full constellation Scatter each 72 PEACE AND PATRIOTISM.
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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.