 Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce upthrow ; The late-sprung mine that underlaid Thy sad concessions vainly made. Thou shouldst have seen from Sumter's wall The star-flag of the Union fall, And armed rebellion pressing on...  The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - Page 64by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892Full view - About this book
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 pages
...Occasion": * Prose Works, Vol. II. p. 274 (1866). t Poetical Works, Vol. IV. p. 62. _ " Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce...rebellion pressing on The broken lines of Washington I No stronger voice than thine had then Called out the utmost might of men To make the Union's charter... | |
 | 1885 - 994 pages
...tempered by the flood of time, he breathes a tenderer regret in " The Lost Occasion " : "Thon shonldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce...mine that underlaid Thy sad concessions vainly made. Ah. cruel fate, that closed to thee, 0 sleeper by the Northern sea, The gates of opportunity ! " But... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 524 pages
...Northern sea, Where long and low the marsh-land spread, Laid wearily down thy august head. Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce...of the Union fall, And armed Rebellion pressing on The-broken hnes of Washington ! No stronger voice than thine had then Called out the utmost might of... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 200 pages
...Northern sea, Where long and low the marsh-lands spread, Laid wearily down thy august head. Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce...thine had then Called out the utmost might of men, To make the Union's charter free And strengthen law by liberty. How had that stern arbitrament To thy... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 116 pages
...Northern sea, Where long and low the marsh-lands spread, Laid wearily down thy august head. Thou shonldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce...thine had then Called out the utmost might of men, To make the Union's charter free And strengthen law by liberty. How had that stern arbitrament To thy... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 616 pages
...Northern sea, Where long and low the maibh-lands spread, Laid wearily down thy august head. Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce...concessions vainly made. Thou shouldst have seen from Sum1еЛ wall The star-flag of the Union fall, And armed Rebellion pressing on The broken lines of... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 570 pages
...Northern sea, Where long and low the marsh-lands spread, Laid wearily down thy august head. Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce...that underlaid Thy sad concessions vainly made. Thou ehouldst have seen from Sumter's wall The star-flag of the Union fall, An,d armed Rehellion pressing... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 484 pages
...stock inherited, New England's stateliest type of man, In port and speech Olympian ; Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce...mine that underlaid Thy sad concessions vainly made. Ah, cruel fate, that closed to thee, O sleeper by the Northern sea, The gates of opportunity ! LOST... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1884 - 452 pages
...Northern sea, Where long and low the marsh-lands spread, Lay wearily down thy august head. Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce...mine that underlaid Thy sad concessions vainly made. No stronger voice than thine had then Called out the utmost might of men. Ah, cruel fate, that closed... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 556 pages
...by the flood of time, he breathes a tenderer regret in " The Lost Occasion " : — " Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce...mine that underlaid Thy sad concessions vainly made. Ah, cruel fate, that closed to thee, O sleeper by the Northern sea, The gates of opportunity ! " But... | |
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