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Page 60
... look to us for hope , and pour out their hearts in sobbings and in prayer to Heaven that ours may be the radiant and the steady light which shall never bewilder or betray ; in this hour , so full of interest , our mother country comes ...
... look to us for hope , and pour out their hearts in sobbings and in prayer to Heaven that ours may be the radiant and the steady light which shall never bewilder or betray ; in this hour , so full of interest , our mother country comes ...
Page 73
... look down upon and listen to them . They have no gentlemen with the lightning pen to telegraph them to distant points . They are not called upon to face and to fear their constituency . Bound together by a solemn covenant not to reveal ...
... look down upon and listen to them . They have no gentlemen with the lightning pen to telegraph them to distant points . They are not called upon to face and to fear their constituency . Bound together by a solemn covenant not to reveal ...
Page 79
... look so pale , And why are you so cold ? " " It had pleased God from the poor wretch His only friend to call ; Yet God was kind to him , and soon In death restored him all . " 79 The picture of the Idiot Boy and his widowed mother , the ...
... look so pale , And why are you so cold ? " " It had pleased God from the poor wretch His only friend to call ; Yet God was kind to him , and soon In death restored him all . " 79 The picture of the Idiot Boy and his widowed mother , the ...
Page 84
... look me in the face and say the same to me , Jeannot ? When you wear the jacket red and the beautiful cockade , Oh ! I fear that you'll forget all the promises you've made . With your gun upon your shoulder , and your bayonet by your ...
... look me in the face and say the same to me , Jeannot ? When you wear the jacket red and the beautiful cockade , Oh ! I fear that you'll forget all the promises you've made . With your gun upon your shoulder , and your bayonet by your ...
Page 93
... not hesitate to denounce as unutterably bad . On this Decoration day , as I look out upon Arlington Heights and hear the guns thundering over the graves of those who perished that their country might live , I think DECORATION DAY. ...
... not hesitate to denounce as unutterably bad . On this Decoration day , as I look out upon Arlington Heights and hear the guns thundering over the graves of those who perished that their country might live , I think DECORATION DAY. ...
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