 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 144 pages
...not — the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall ! Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - Slavery - 1853 - 340 pages
...not — the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall ! Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven Fiend- goaded down the endless dark, From hope... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1853 - 424 pages
...fall ! " To dash corruption in her proud career, And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear." " Oh dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night." Had he been faithful to his own best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood ! How different... | |
 | Theodore Parker - History - 1853 - 116 pages
...fall! '* To dash corruption in her proud career, And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear." " Oh dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night." Had he been faithful to his own best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood ! How different... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Abolitionists - 1853 - 124 pages
...fall ! " To dash corruption in her proud career, And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear." " Oh dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night." Had he been faithful to his own best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood I How different... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - Slavery - 1853 - 328 pages
...Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, -Befit his fall ! Oh ! dumb bo passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A-bright soul driven Fiend-goaded down the endless dark, From hope... | |
 | Theodore Parker - History - 1853 - 128 pages
...dash corruption in her proud career, And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear." " Oh dumb lie passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night." Had he been faithful to his own best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood ! How different... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1855 - 646 pages
...fall ! " To dash corruption in her proud career, And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear." " Oh dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night." Had he been faithful to his own best words, so oft repeated, how he would have stood ! How different... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...him not — the Tempter hath A suare for all! And pityina tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall. Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted np and led his age Falls hack in night. Scorn ! would the angels langh to mark A bright sonl driven,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...not, — the Tempter hath A snare for all ! And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall. Oh ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...lighted up and led his age Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope... | |
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Scorn! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark. From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow. 
