Verse for Patriots: To Encourage Good CitizenshipJ.B. Lippincott, 1919 - 367 pagini |
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Pagina 42
... light task , and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand , and rein The charger on the battle - field . Few , few were they whose swords , of old , Won the fair land in which we dwell ; But we are many , we who hold The grim resolve ...
... light task , and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand , and rein The charger on the battle - field . Few , few were they whose swords , of old , Won the fair land in which we dwell ; But we are many , we who hold The grim resolve ...
Pagina 48
... light and will to take one's part In the world's work at field or desk or mart , When this old joy of living we restore , We shall have paid a little of our score . When we have given to earth's stricken lands The service of our minds ...
... light and will to take one's part In the world's work at field or desk or mart , When this old joy of living we restore , We shall have paid a little of our score . When we have given to earth's stricken lands The service of our minds ...
Pagina 51
... light and searching as the flame . " Yes , for a scrap of paper we will fight Till our last breath ; and God defend the right ! 66 A scrap of paper where a name is set Is strong as duty's pledge and honor's debt . " A scrap of paper ...
... light and searching as the flame . " Yes , for a scrap of paper we will fight Till our last breath ; and God defend the right ! 66 A scrap of paper where a name is set Is strong as duty's pledge and honor's debt . " A scrap of paper ...
Pagina 55
... light of liberty world - wide for every land . Britain , and France , and Italy , and Russia newly born , Have waited for thee in the night . Oh , come as comes the morn ! Serene and strong and full of faith , America arise , With ...
... light of liberty world - wide for every land . Britain , and France , and Italy , and Russia newly born , Have waited for thee in the night . Oh , come as comes the morn ! Serene and strong and full of faith , America arise , With ...
Pagina 68
... light And a voice as low as the sea . * " Do ' ee know who Nelson was ? That pore little shrivelled form With the patch on his eye , and the pinned - up sleeve And a soul like a North Sea storm ? " He wasn't the man you think ! His ...
... light And a voice as low as the sea . * " Do ' ee know who Nelson was ? That pore little shrivelled form With the patch on his eye , and the pinned - up sleeve And a soul like a North Sea storm ? " He wasn't the man you think ! His ...
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Pagina 183 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Pagina 301 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Pagina 283 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and .all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Pagina 76 - WHENE'ER a noble deed is wrought, Whene'er is spoken a noble thought Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.
Pagina 265 - When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Pagina 145 - Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!
Pagina 271 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think ; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Pagina 194 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Pagina 64 - But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And like a dam, the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam.
Pagina 123 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.