Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell: Captain Sixth United States Cavalry, Colonel Second Massachusetts Cavalry, Brigadier-general United States Volunteers |
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Page 324 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Page 202 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Page xiii - Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb turf wraps. Dark to the triumph which they died to gain. Fitlier may others greet the living, For me the past is unforgiving ; I, with uncovered head, Salute the sacred dead, Who went, and who return not. — Say not so ! 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way.
Page vi - Bursts up in flame ; the war of tongue and pen Learns with what deadly purpose it was fraught, And, helpless in the fiery passion caught, Shakes all the pillared state with shock of men...
Page 393 - TEACH me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for Thee...
Page 451 - In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley, where it is expected you will have to go first or last, it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite the enemy to return. Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command ; such as cannot be consumed, destroy.
Page xiii - Blow, trumpets, all your exultations blow! For never shall their aureoled presence lack; I see them muster in a gleaming row, With ever-youthful brows that nobler show; We find in our dull road their shining track; In every nobler mood We feel the orient of their spirit glow, Part of our life's unalterable good, Of all our saintlier aspiration; They come transfigured back, Secure from change in their high-hearted ways, Beautiful evermore, and with the rays Of morn on their white Shields of Expectation!
Page 441 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Page 324 - Like showers of manna, if they come at all : Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness ; like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 393 - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
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| Title | Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell: Captain Sixth United States Cavalry, Colonel Second Massachusetts Cavalry, Brigadier-general United States Volunteers Kennikat Press scholarly reprints: Series in American history and culture in the nineteenth century |
| Author | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1907 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0804614776, 9780804614771 |
| Length | 499 pages |
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