American Patriotic Prose and VerseRuth Frances Davis Stevens, David Harrison Stevens |
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... souls , my will declared , Shall grow by slow degrees . Beneath my throne the martyrs cry : I hear their voice , How long ? It mingles with their praises high , And with their victor song . The thing they longed and waited for , But ...
... souls , my will declared , Shall grow by slow degrees . Beneath my throne the martyrs cry : I hear their voice , How long ? It mingles with their praises high , And with their victor song . The thing they longed and waited for , But ...
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... souls were on fire for action . " ยท MR . PRESIDENT , it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope . We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth , and listen to the song of the siren till she transforms us into beasts ...
... souls were on fire for action . " ยท MR . PRESIDENT , it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope . We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth , and listen to the song of the siren till she transforms us into beasts ...
Page 63
... soul that lifts him above the rank of ordinary men . To com- mon occurrences he is indifferent . Personal consid- erations dwindle into nothing in comparison with his high sense of public duty . In all the vicissitudes of fortune , he ...
... soul that lifts him above the rank of ordinary men . To com- mon occurrences he is indifferent . Personal consid- erations dwindle into nothing in comparison with his high sense of public duty . In all the vicissitudes of fortune , he ...
Page 69
... soul I spurn the doctrine base , And , as an equal brotherhood , embrace All people , and for all fair freedom claim ! Know this , O man ! whate'er thy earthly fate- God never made a tyrant nor a slave : Woe , then , to those who dare ...
... soul I spurn the doctrine base , And , as an equal brotherhood , embrace All people , and for all fair freedom claim ! Know this , O man ! whate'er thy earthly fate- God never made a tyrant nor a slave : Woe , then , to those who dare ...
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... soul within him climb To the awful verge of manhood , as the energy sublime Of a century bursts full - blossomed on the thorny stem of Time . Through the walls of hut and palace shoots the instantaneous throe , When the travail of the ...
... soul within him climb To the awful verge of manhood , as the energy sublime Of a century bursts full - blossomed on the thorny stem of Time . Through the walls of hut and palace shoots the instantaneous throe , When the travail of the ...
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