 ... 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
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...sires, our sous 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. PATE. THE element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation.... | |
 | Thomas Francis Bayard - Caesar Rodney Monument (Dover, Del.) - 1889 - 82 pages
...those of Emerson ?— " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die—and leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee." "To all present, young and old, this monument, erected over the precious dust of Caesar Rodney, may... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - American poetry - 1890 - 344 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. RW EMEBSON. ' The battle of Concord, Mass., April 19, 1775, was the opening battle of the Kevolution.... | |
 | Poetry - 1890 - 168 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. EMERSON (Concord Monument). 12 84 HE has gone down ! " They shout it from afar, Kings, Nobles, Priests... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1891 - 288 pages
...sires, our sous 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. 1 On belne asked. Whence ls the flower? NATHANIEL HAWTHOKNE. THE HAUNTED MIND. WHAT a singular moment... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - American literature - 1889 - 324 pages
...our 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. RHODORA. IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh rhodora in the woods, Spreading... | |
 | Poetry - 1891 - 168 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. EMERSON (Concord Monument). 12 84 HE has gone down ! " They shout it from afar, Kings, Nobles, Priests... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne, William Leonard Lemmon - American literature - 1891 - 428 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. Give the history of the event this hymn commemorates. Select the most striking lines in the hymn. Why... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Collections - 1891 - 298 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 thce. i On belne asked. Whence Is the flower? NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. THE HAUNTED MIND. WHAT a singular... | |
 | Readers - 1892 - 216 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. XIII. HOME, SWEET HOME. JOHN HOWARD PAYNE. 'Mm pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it never... | |
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