 The pangs of transformation ; Not painlessly doth God recast And mould anew the nation. Hot burns the fire Where wrongs expire ; Nor spares the hand That from the land Uproots the ancient evil. The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is...  In War Time, and Other Poems - Page 15by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 152 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frank Moore - 1889 - 614 pages
...dropping ; The poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping. What gives the wheat field blades of steel ? What points the rebel cannon ? What...heel On the old star-spangled pennon ? What breaks ths oath Of the men of the South ? What whets the knife For the Union's life ? — Hark to the answer... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1889 - 602 pages
...dropping ; Tho poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping. What gives the wheat field blades of steel ? What points the rebel cannon ? What 'sets the roaring rabble's htrl On the old (.tar-spangled pennon ? What breaks tha oath Of the men of the South ? What whets the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1891 - 534 pages
...land Uproots the ancient evil. The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is dropping ; The poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping....curses the earth ; All justice dies, And fraud and lies Lire only in its shadow. What gives the wheat-field blades of steel ? What points the rebel cannon... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 440 pages
...land Uproots the ancient evil. The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is dropping ; The poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping....shadow. What gives the wheat-field blades of steel? f What points the rebel cannon? What sets the roaring rabble's heel On the old star-spangled pennon... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 394 pages
...land Uproots the ancient evil. The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is dropping ; The poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping....in its shadow. What gives the wheat-field blades of steelr What points the rebel cannon ? What sets the roaring rabble's heel On the old star-spangled... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 608 pages
...land Uproots the ancient evil. ïbe hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is dropping ; The poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping....curses the earth ; All justice dies, And fraud and lies Lire ouly in its shadow. What gives the wheat-field bíneles of steel? What points the rebel cannon... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 438 pages
...land Uproots the ancient evil. The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is dropping ; The poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping....curses the earth ; All justice dies, And fraud and lies Lire only in its shadow. What gives the wheat-field blades of steel? What points the rebel cannon ?... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 394 pages
...land Uproots the ancient evil. The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is dropping ; The poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping. East, West, South, North, It curses the earth; AH justice dies, And fraud and lies lave only in its shadow. What gives the wheat-field blades of steel?... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1894 - 592 pages
...eviL г'-' The hand-breadth cloud the nages feared Its bloody niin is dropping ; The poUon plant thu fathers spared All else is overtopping. East, West, South, North, It curses the earth ; All justice dir». And fraud and lies Live only in its shadow. What gives the wheat-Held blades of steel ? What... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1895 - 584 pages
...cloud the sages feared Its Moody rain is dropping ; The poison plant the father» spared All else IB overtopping. East, West, South, North, It curses the earth ; All justice dies, And fraud and lieu Live only in its shadow. What gives the wheat-field blades of steel ? What points the rebel cannon?... | |
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