 | Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free,...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. Though in his thoughts and opinions not always showing that outward consistency which is the bugbear... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...That memory may their deed redeem,3 When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft 4 we raise to them and thee. 5. -THE PROBLEM. I LIKE a church; I like a cowl;5 I love a prophet of... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - Literary Criticism - 1887 - 514 pages
...That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. " Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free,...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee." In the midst of this happiness and work, death had come twice into the Emerson circle, first taking... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1887 - 168 pages
...deed redeem When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. EMERSON (Concord Monument). 12 84 HE has gone down ! " They shout it from afar, Kings, Nobles, Priests... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 230 pages
...That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free,...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee." Two days after Emerson's Concord oration, he " drove over to Plymouth, and was married." His wife —... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sous are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free,...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. PATE. THE element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation.... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free,...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. PATE. element running through entire nature, which we popularly call -*- Fate, is known to us as limitation.... | |
 | Thomas Francis Bayard - Caesar Rodney Monument (Dover, Del.) - 1889 - 82 pages
...there words more fitting than those of Emerson ?— " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die—and leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee." "To all present, young and old, this monument, erected over the precious dust of Caesar Rodney, may... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - American poetry - 1890 - 344 pages
...2 That memory may her dead redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free,...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. RW EMERSON. 1 The battle of Concord, Mass., April 19, 1775, was the opening battle of the Revolution.... | |
 | Poetry - 1890 - 168 pages
...deed redeem When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. EMERSON (Concord Monument). 12 84 HE has gone down ! " They shout it from afar, Kings, Nobles, Priests... | |
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Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. 
