 | Joseph Howe - 1874 - 360 pages
...the eye, But yet, do not withhold the grateful tear For those, and for their works, who are not here. Not here ? Oh ! yes, our hearts their presence feel,...ev'ry breast with joy and triumph swells, And earth reverberates to our measured tread, Banner and wreath will own our reverence for the Dead. Look up,... | |
 | 1875 - 606 pages
...inheritance to their children, and he claims tribute " For those, and for their works, who are not here. " Not here ? Oh ! yes, our hearts their presence feel,...gone by were spells, Are blent with that soft music." "Verses on Sable Island," Lines to his Wife and Sister, and his " Centenar) Song " are of this same... | |
 | 1883 - 528 pages
...yet, do not withhold the grateful tear For those, and for their works, who are not here. Not here 1 Oh yes, our hearts their presence feel : Viewless,...The spirit here our country's fame to spread, While every breast with joy and triumph swells, And earth reverb'rates to our measured tread, Banner and... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1892 - 526 pages
...statesmen, no more noble tribute was paid than the following verses by Joseph Howe: '' Not here? Oh I yes, our hearts their presence feel. Viewless, not...The spirit here our country's fame to spread, While every breast with joy and triumph swells, And earth reverberates to our measured tread, Banner and... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1892 - 522 pages
...pioneers or statesmen, no more noble tribute •was paid than the following verses by Joseph Howe: •' Not here? Oh ! yes, our hearts their presence feel....echoes steal, And names which in the days gone by wero spells Are blent with that soft music. If there dwells The spirit here our country's fame to spread,... | |
 | George Edward Fenety - 1896 - 402 pages
...card bearing the initials of the donor and a passage from Mr. Howe's well-known poem " Our Fathers :" Not here ? Oh, yes, our hearts their presence feel,...And names, which, in the days gone by, were spells, And blest with their soft music • • • • • • • If fitly you'd aspire, Honor the dead,... | |
 | Royal Society of Canada - 1900 - 1018 pages
...of a loyalist, of the Nova Scotian, Joseph Howe, poet, orator and statesman : " Not here f Oh уeв, our hearts their presence feel, Viewless, not voiceless,...dwells The spirit here our country's fame to spread, Whilst every breast with joy and triumph swells, And earth reveberatee to our measured tread, Banner... | |
 | Sir John George Bourinot - 1900 - 274 pages
...an honest conscientious man differing in principles, but equally influenced by lofty aspirations : " Not here? Oh yes, our hearts their presence feel;...shore harmonious echoes steal, And names, which, in days gone by, were spells, Are blent w r ith that soft music. If there dwells The spirit here our country's... | |
 | Wilfred Campbell, Thomas Mower Martin - 1907 - 608 pages
...yet, do not withhold the grateful tear For those, and for their works, who are not here. Not here ? O yes ! our hearts their presence feel, Viewless, not...The spirit here our country's fame to spread, While every breast with joy and triumph swells, And earth reverberates to our measured tread, Banner and... | |
 | Wilfred Campbell, Thomas Mower Martin - 1907 - 622 pages
...yet, do not withhold the grateful tear For those, and for their works, who are not here. Not here ? O yes ! our hearts their presence feel, Viewless, not...The spirit here our country's fame to spread, While every breast with joy and triumph swells, And earth reverberates to our measured tread, Banner and... | |
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O yes ! our hearts their presence feel, Viewless, not voiceless; from the deepest shells On memory's shore harmonious echoes steal, And names which in the days gone by were spells Are blent with that soft music. 
