 Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, So bountiful is Fate; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her. To front a lie in arms and not to yield, This shows, methinks, God's...  Life of Alonzo Ames Miner ... - Pagina 532door George Homer Emerson - 1896 - 555 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1868 - 414 pagina’s
...dared to stand beside her When craven churls deride her ; To face u He in arms, and not to yield. That shows methinks God's plan And measure of a stalwart man, Limbed like the old heroic creeds; Who stands self- poised on nature's solid earth ; Not forced to frame excuses for his birth,... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pagina’s
...stalwart man, Limbed like tlie old heroic breeds, Who stands self-poised on manhood's solid earth, Kot forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength ho needs. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the "Nation he had led, With ashes on her head,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pagina’s
...ways, And loyalty to truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, So generous is fate; But then to stand beside her When craven churls deride...birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 2. Such was he, our martyr chief, Whom late the nation he had led, With ashes on her head, Wept with... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pagina’s
...ways, And loyalty to truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, So generous is fate ; But then to stand beside her When craven churls deride...front a lie in arms and not to yield,— This shows, uiethinks, God's plan And measure of a stalwart man, Limbed like the old heroic breeds, Who stands... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 pagina’s
...ways, And loyalty to truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, So generous is fate; But then to stand beside her When craven churls deride...birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 2. Such was he, our martyr chief, Whom late the nation he had led, With ashes on her head, Wept with... | |
 | 1868 - 556 pagina’s
...ways, And loyalty to truth he sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, So generous is Pate ; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms, and not to yield 1 We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 'twas they won it,... | |
 | 1868 - 850 pagina’s
...ways, And loyalty to truth bo sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, So generous is Fate ; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms, and not to yield 1 MEMORIAL LITERATURE. We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey nnd milk ;... | |
 | 1868 - 874 pagina’s
...ways, And loyaltv to truth be sealed As bravely m the closet as the field, So generous is Fate ; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a Me in arms, and not to yield ! We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pagina’s
...ways, And loyalty to Truth bo scaled As bravely in the closet as the field, So bountiful is Fate; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride...front a lie in arms and not to yield, This shows, mcthinks, God's plan And measure of a stalwart man, Limbed like the old heroic breeds, Who stands self-poised... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pagina’s
...her, When craven churls deride her, To front я li'1 in arms and not to yield, This shows, metliinks, 2 stand self-poised on manhood's solid earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within... | |
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