The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Littell's Living Age - Page 4481868Full view - About this book
| Moncure Daniel Conway - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 402 pages
...The proclamation found the people assembled in Boston and Emerson reading to them his Hymn : — " The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor." So it opened, and through the twenty-two verses, so full of majesty, the vast audience listened with... | |
| James Ormsbee Murray - Baccalaureate addresses - 1883 - 40 pages
...now, as over that hushed and breathless throng came the measured cadences of the lyric to freedom : The word of the Lord by night To the watching pilgrims...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. I can recall the thrill which shot through the vast audience as the poet said : Pay ransom to the owner,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man. BOSTON HYMN. BEAD IX MUSIC HAT.T., jANUAItY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. BOSTON IIYMN. 175 Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 pages
...the sun out of the skies Ere freedom out of man. BOSTON HYMN. EEAD IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with Same. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more ; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage... | |
| Alexander McKenzie - Congregational churches - 1883 - 332 pages
...of history. The history of our own land is written in a single verse by one of our poets : The voice of the Lord by night To the watching pilgrims came,...by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. Whatever may be done by the great movements of armies and nations, the moving force underneath these... | |
| 1883 - 410 pages
...contemplated makes relatively insignificant the well-condemned efforts of the Invinciblea and Dyuamitists. God said, " I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more Up to mine ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. " Think ye I made this ball A field for havoc... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 pages
...for all his faith could see, I would not the good bishop be. BOSTON HYMN. As they sat by the seaside, THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Iran - 1884 - 842 pages
...inquisition the cause of the helpless and oppressed. It seemed that in the tongue and sword of this Prophet "God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor." It abolished privilege of sex in matters of religious function. It set aside primogeniture. It denounced... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1884 - 454 pages
...England have seen the following lines from Emerson ; and yet what a lesson is contained in them ! ' God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. Lo ! I uncover the land Which I hid of old time in the West, As the sculptor uncovers the statue When... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Iran - 1884 - 842 pages
...inquisition the cause of the helpless and oppressed. It seemed that in the tongue and sword of this Prophet "God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor." It abolished privilege of sex in matters of religious function. It set aside primogeniture. It denounced... | |
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