 | 1928 - 480 pagini
...could have been written of Mark Keppel as they were of Lincoln, for he, too, was a "man of the people": "The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things. The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind... | |
 | 1900 - 848 pagini
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | 1909 - 632 pagini
...serious stuff. Into the shape she breathed a flame to light That tender, tragic, everchanglng face. Here was a man to hold against the world, A man to match our peaks and plains and seas. The color of the ground was In blm; the red earth: The smack and tang... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 432 pagini
...prophecy, Tempered the heap with touch of mortal tears; Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | 1915 - 220 pagini
...serious stuff. Into the shape she breathed a flame to light That tender, tragic, ever-changing face. Here was a man to hold against the world, A man to match our peaks and plains and seas. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth. The smack and tang... | |
 | 1900 - 76 pagini
...for centuries. A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | 1900 - 616 pagini
...superbly poetical lines expressing the characteristics of the great captain in nature- terms:— " The color of the ground was In him, the red earth; The tang and odor of the primal things; The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind... | |
 | Republican Club of the City of New York - 1900 - 76 pagini
...for centuries. A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - 1902 - 772 pagini
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth, The tang and odor of the primal things, The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind... | |
 | Mrs. Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggins, Nora Archibald Smith - 1916 - 784 pagini
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains asd compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red: Earth, The tang and odor of the primal things, The rectitude and patience of the rocks ; The gladness of the wind... | |
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The color of the ground was in him, the red earth ; The smack and tang of elemental things; The rectitude and patience of the cliff; The good-will of the rain that loves all leaves; The friendly welcome of the wayside well; The courage of the bird that... 
