 ... And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those...  New York Teachers' Monographs - Page 801905Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...sires our sons are gone. Spirit! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. MOJtTON AND CHAPMAN, PRINTEJiS, 2, CRANE-COURT, FLEET-STREET, LONDON. 121, NEWGATE-STREET, LONDON.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. w THE BORROWER WILL BE CHARGED AN OVERDUE FEE IFTHIS BOOK IS NOT RETURNED TO THE LIBRARY ON OR BEFORE... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...sires our sons are gone. Spirit ! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee." 1. The Silent Pastor, or Consolations for the Sick. By Thomas Sadler, Ph.D. 18mo. Pp. 128. Chapman,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1850 - 388 pages
...sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. THE SUCCESSFUL SCHOLAR. BY GEORGE PUTNAM. WE are often told from abroad, in terms not always agreeable,... | |
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 516 pages
...sires, our sons nre gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee." Close under the rough stone wall at the left, which separates it from the little grassy orchard of... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. JACOB LEONARD MARTIN.1 1805-1848. 286. THE CHURCH OF SANTA CROCE, FLORENCE. TOMB of the mighty dead,2... | |
 | Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 558 pages
...sires, our sons are gone. Spirit that made those heroes dare To die and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. The statue itself needs but little description. The reader can see for himself how admirably the artist... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...memory may their deed redeem, Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. WARREN'S ADDRESS. STAND ! the ground 's your own, my braves ! Will ye give it... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 714 pages
...sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. The fight of Lexington and Concord was commemorated with remarkable enthusiasm on its hundredth anniversary,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. BOSTON HYMN. READ IN Music HALL, JANUABY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims... | |
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