American Patriotic Prose and VerseMrs. Ruth Frances (Davis) Stevens, Ruth Frances Davis Stevens, David Harrison Stevens A chronologically arranged collection of patriotic literature, with subjects ranging from Columbus to World War I. |
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... North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we idle here ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear , or peace so sweet , as to be ...
... North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms ! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we idle here ? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear , or peace so sweet , as to be ...
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... North Church tower as a signal light- One , if by land , and two , if by sea ; And I on the opposite shore will be , 1 From The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Long fellow . Used by permission of , and by special arrangement ...
... North Church tower as a signal light- One , if by land , and two , if by sea ; And I on the opposite shore will be , 1 From The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Long fellow . Used by permission of , and by special arrangement ...
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... North Church , By the wooden stairs , with stealthy tread , To the belfry - chamber overhead , And startled the pigeons from their perch On the sombre rafters , that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade- By the trembling ...
... North Church , By the wooden stairs , with stealthy tread , To the belfry - chamber overhead , And startled the pigeons from their perch On the sombre rafters , that round him made Masses and moving shapes of shade- By the trembling ...
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... and near , Then , impetuous , stamped the earth , And turned and tightened his saddle - girth ; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry - tower of the Old North Church , 26 American Patriotic Prose and Verse.
... and near , Then , impetuous , stamped the earth , And turned and tightened his saddle - girth ; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry - tower of the Old North Church , 26 American Patriotic Prose and Verse.
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... North Church , As it rose above the graves on the hill , Lonely and spectral and sombre and still . And lo ! as he looks , on the belfry's height A glimmer , and then a gleam of light ! He springs to the saddle , the bridle he turns ...
... North Church , As it rose above the graves on the hill , Lonely and spectral and sombre and still . And lo ! as he looks , on the belfry's height A glimmer , and then a gleam of light ! He springs to the saddle , the bridle he turns ...
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Page 23 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 23 - Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 67 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck once red with heroes...
Page 2 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 4 - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules ; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said : " Now must we pray, For lo ! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say...
Page 58 - We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans ; we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 61 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave ! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps
Page 41 - Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand, neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Page 24 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.
Page 78 - MINE eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.