 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pages
...land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love sh6uld keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ; but greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions... | |
 | Carl David Arfwedson - 1834 - 444 pages
...free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, Witli years, should gather round that day ; How love should keep their...bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway.• * Bryant's Poems, p. 204. On an eminence above the town is a cemetery, where the remains of some of... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1835 - 328 pages
...— Our fathers — trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love should keep their...memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ; but greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions... | |
 | James Thacher - 1835 - 426 pages
...the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light With years, should gather round that day ; How love should keep their...memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ; and greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1836 - 288 pages
...the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love should keep their...memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ; but greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 292 pages
...the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love should keep their...memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ; but greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 264 pages
...the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love should keep their...memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ; but greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love should keep their...memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays ; but greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions,... | |
 | William Shaw Russell - 1846 - 450 pages
...about commencing in the world's reformation. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love should keep their...memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. But results have followed in the wake of the Mayflower, auspiciously affecting the condition of millions;... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1847 - 520 pages
...the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day; How love should keep their...memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. Green are their bays; but greener still Shall round their spreading fame be wreathed, And regions,... | |
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They little thought how pure a light, With years, should gather round that day ; How love should keep their memories bright, How wide a realm their sons should sway. 
