And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Lincoln in American Memory - Page 190by Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 496 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| California - 1928 - 480 pages
...For him we do not mourn — for him we rejoice. We are the better for his having lived amongst us. He held his place — Held the long purpose like a...And when he fell in whirlwind he went down As when a huge cedar green with boughs Goes down with a great shout amongst the hills And leaves a lonesome place... | |
| Clark Bell - Law - 1911 - 264 pages
...again The rafters of the Home. He held his place — Held the long purpose like a growing tree1 — Held on through blame and faltered not at praise....when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs. Goes down with a great shout upon the hills. And leaves a lonesome... | |
| American periodicals - 1900 - 848 pages
...ancient hold, He held the ridgepole up and spiked again The rafters of the Home. He held his place-1— Held the long purpose like a growing tree — Held...boughs Goes down with a great shout upon the hills. Miss Anthony's Retirement New York Tribune. Excerpt The National American woman suffrage association,... | |
| United States - 1909 - 632 pages
...rafters from their ancient rest, He held tbe ridgepole up, and spiked (gain The rafters of the Home. He held his place — Held the long purpose like a...through blame and faltered not at praise. And when be fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a lordly cedar, green wltb boughs. Goes down with a great... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 432 pages
...rafters from their ancient hold, He held the ridgepole up and spiked again The rafters of the Home. He held his place — Held the long purpose like a...hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Illustrations ABRAHAM LINCOLN Frontispiece FACE INTERIOR OF LINCOLN'S FIRST HOME IN ILLINOIS xlviii... | |
| Education - 1915 - 220 pages
...rafters of the Home. He held his place — He'd the long purpose like a growing tree — Held on thru blame and faltered not at praise. And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills. And leaves a lonesome... | |
| Republican Club of the City of New York - 1900 - 76 pages
...rafters from their ancient hold, He held the ridgepole up and spiked again The rafters of the Home. He held his place — Held the long purpose like a...boughs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills. Address of Rabbi Samuel Schulman. DR. DEPEW: My friends, no statesman, living or dead, ever so thoroughly... | |
| 1900 - 76 pages
...rafters from their ancient hold, He held the ridgepole up and spiked again The rafters of the Home. He held his place — Held the long purpose like a...boughs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills. Address of Rabbi Samuel Schulman. DR. DEPEW: My friends, no statesman, living or dead, ever so thoroughly... | |
| United States - 1902 - 708 pages
...every blow, The conscience of him testing every stroke, To make his deed the measure of a man. ****** He held his place — Held the long purpose like a...hills, And leaves a lonesome place against the sky. Before the passing of Lincoln the cause of chattel slavery went down. America had vindicated her right... | |
| Mrs. Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggins, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1916 - 784 pages
...rafters from their ancient hold. He held the ridgepole up and spiked again The rafters of the Home. He held his place — Held the long purpose like a...boughs Goes down with a great shout upon the hills. EDWIN MAUKHAM. Abraham Lincoln /a , . World (Summer, 1865.) , ,.. . ; and Old Dead is the roll of the... | |
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