 | 1865 - 330 pages
...smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step, as though the way were plain ; Recklcss, so it could point its paragraph Of chief's perplexity,...Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer — To lame my pencil, and confute my pen — To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1865 - 582 pages
...Of power or will to shine, of art to please. )'.<•/, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step, as though the way were plain :...winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet. Say, scurril-jester, is there room for you ? Yes, he had... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 pages
...debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please. You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step, as though the way were plain ;...winding-sheet The stars and stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you ? Yes, he had... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step, as though the way were plain ; feckless, so it could point its paragraph, Of chief's perplexity,...winding-sheet The stars and stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you ? Tes, he had... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - Biography - 1865 - 206 pages
...debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please. o You, whoso smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step, as though the way were plain : Reckless, so it could point its paragraph, Of chief s perplexity, or people's pain. Beside this corpse, that bears for winding-sheet The Stars and... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1866 - 772 pages
...we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please : You, whose smart pen backed np the pencil's langh, Judging each step as though the...anew, Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen ; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 352 pages
...debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please : You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step, as though the way were plain ;...anew, Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil and confute my pen ; To make me own this hind of princes peer, — This rail-splitter,... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 368 pages
...You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step, as though the way were plai n ; Reckless, so it could point its paragraph, Of chief's...anew, Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil and confute my pen ; To make me own this hind of princes peer, — This rail-splitter,... | |
 | United States. Dept. of State - 1866 - 766 pages
...debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please : You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's laugh, Judging each step as though the way were plain : Reckless,...winding-sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, Between the mourners at his head and feet. Say, scurril-jester, is there room for you Î Yes, he had... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 pages
...Of power or will to shine, of art to please. " You, whose smart pen backed up the pencil's Jaragb, Judging each step, as though the way were plain,—...people's pain. " Beside this corpse, that bears for winding sheet The Stars and Stripes he lived to rear anew, f Between the mourners at his head and feet,... | |
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His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling hair, His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease, His lack of all we prize as debonair, Of power or will to shine, of art to please... 
