 Nature, they say,. doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,...  Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A - Page 91by Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 196 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1903 - 528 pages
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 | American essays - 1872 - 810 pages
...the Lincoln whom the poet had already revealed to us : — "Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, One whose meek flock the people joyed to be. Not lured...clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity I His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now,... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...aside she threw, And, choo>ing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength...clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity I They new that outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1866 - 504 pages
...aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength...clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity ! They knew that outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's... | |
 | Literature - 1869 - 658 pages
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 | 1879 - 692 pages
...aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength...clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity ! They knew that outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Biography & Autobiography - 1867 - 480 pages
...aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength...the people joyed to be, Not lured by any cheat of b^rth, But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity ! They knew that outward... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - United States - 1867 - 472 pages
...aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength...How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind iadeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead ; One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. 4. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved... | |
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