 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...war-rock'd cradle lay, An iron race around her stood, Baptized her infant brows in blood ; And, through the storm which round her swept, Their constant ward...sterner trials wait the race Which rises in their honor'd place — A moral warfare with the crime And folly of an evil time. " So let it be. In God's... | |
 | Gems - 1850 - 204 pages
...; And through the storm which round her swept, Their constant ward and watchword kept. Then, where quiet herds repose, The roar of baleful battle rose,...graves have gone ; Their strife is past — their triumphs won : But sterner trials wait the race Which rise in their honoured place — A MORAL WARFARE... | |
 | Gems - 1851 - 206 pages
...stood, Baptised her infant brow in blood ; And through the storm which round her swept, Then, where quiet herds repose, The roar of baleful battle rose,...fathers to their graves have gone ; Their strife is past—their triumphs won : But sterner trials wait the race Which rise into their honoured place—•... | |
 | Charles Grandison Parsons - Enslaved persons - 1855 - 340 pages
...brow in blood, And, through the storm which round her swept, Their constant ward and watching kept. " Our fathers to their graves have gone Their strife is past, — their triumph won j But sterner trials wait the race Which rises in their honored place — A moral warfare with the... | |
 | Charles Grandison Parsons - Enslaved persons - 1855 - 334 pages
...war-rocked cradle lay, An iron race around her stood, Baptized her infant brow in blood, And, through the storm which round her swept, Their constant ward and watching kept. " Our fathers to their graves have gone Their strife is past, — their triumph won; But sterner trials... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 pages
...war-roek'd cradle lay, An iron race around her stood, Baptized her intant brows in blood ; And, through the storm which round her swept, Their constant ward...man for beast, and blood for wine. " Our fathers to {heir graves have gone ; Their strife is past — their triumph won ; But sterner trials wait the race... | |
 | James Redpath - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 530 pages
...tear-rocked eradle lay, An iron race around her stood, Baptized her infant brme in Mood, And, through the storm •which round her swept, Their constant ward and watching kept." Again: " God bless New Hampshire ! — from her granite peaks, Once more the voice of Stark and Langdon... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 pages
...war-rocked cradle lay, An< iron race around her stood, Baptized her infant brow in blood ; And, through the storm which round her swept) Their constant ward...Freedom's shrine Was man for beast, and blood for wine I Our fathers to their graves have gone ; Their strife is past — their triumph won ; But sterner... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 pages
...war-rock'd cradle lay, An iron race around her stood, Baptized her infant brow in blood, And, through the storm which round her swept, Their constant ward and watching kept. Then where quiet herds repose The roar of baleful battle rose, And brethren of a common tongue To mortal strife... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 406 pages
...war-rocked cradle lay, An iron race around her stood, Baptized her infant brow in blood; And, through the storm which round her swept, Their constant ward...Freedom's shrine Was man for beast, and blood for wine I We gird us for the coming fight, So let it be. In God's own might In conflict with unholy powers,... | |
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MORAL WARFARE. WHEN Freedom, on her natal day, Within her war-rocked cradle lay, An iron race around her stood, Baptized her infant brow in blood ; And, through the storm which round her swept, Their constant ward and watching kept. Then... 
