 Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all' are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient,...  Lincoln in American Memory - Page 32by Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 496 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kiudly-eurncst, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1866 - 504 pages
...their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes : These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...tune, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums Disturb our...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest,... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - America - 1868 - 300 pages
...time. And can his fame abide. Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes : These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1869 - 524 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 312 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold bis fame, The kindly-earnest, bravo,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. ons of former years ; And shadows of things that have long since fled Flit over the brain, like t conies ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest,... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower. Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower. Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest,... | |
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