 Let it go or stay, so I wake to the higher aims Of a land that has lost for a little her lust of gold, And love of a peace that was full of wrongs and shames, Horrible, hateful, monstrous, not to be told j And hail once more to the banner of battle unroll'd...  Harvard Magazine - Page 4601855Full view - About this book
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...the war, which have this flaming finish : • • Let it ro or stay, so I wake to the higher aim s Of a land that has lost for a little her lust of gold....hateful, monstrous, not to be told ; And hail once move to the banner ol battle unroll'd ! Tho' many a light shall darken, and many bhall weep For those... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...is time," we are told, that Peace, " that old, hysterical, mock-disease, should die ; " for it is " Full of wrongs and shames Horrible, hateful, monstrous, not to be told." The Czar is "a giant liar," and — "Jack at his nle-house door Is as full of lies as a Cxar." This... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 pages
...and foretel the coming war; may join the people in a battle-cry on board a ship-of-the-line, and " wake to the higher aims of a land that has lost for a little her lust of gold." All this may be done, and leave us little the wiser. It may be an allegory— which is the severest... | |
 | 1855 - 684 pages
...emphasis to his protest. But surely it is not unmanly nor unchristian that a man, who has seen and felt " a peace that was full of wrongs and shames — horrible, hateful, monstrous — not to be told," should feel that nothing but the stern schooling of a war could educate the sinewy virtues, without... | |
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...emphasis to his protest. But surely it is not unmanly nor unchristian that a man, who has seen and felt " a peace that was full of wrongs and shames — horrible, hateful, monstrous — not to be told," should feel that nothing but the stern schooling of a war could educate the sinewy virtues, without... | |
 | 1855 - 682 pages
...emphasis to his protest. But surely it is uot unmanly nor unchristian that a man, who has seen and felt " a peace that was full of wrongs and shames — horrible, hateful, monstrous — not to bo told," should feel that nothing but the stern schooling of a war could educate the sinewy virtues,... | |
 | 1855 - 972 pages
...deadlier in their hold upon the nation, than at the end of that season of peace which, we are told, is " full of wrongs and shames, horrible, hateful, monstrous, not to be told." And what has been the effect of </iii war? Has it served, in any very obvious manner, to correct the mischiefs... | |
 | 1855 - 946 pages
...place again among men : — ' Let it go or stay, ao I wake to the higher aims Of a land that has lout for a little her lust of gold, And love of a peace that wag full of wrongs and shame*, Horrible, hateful, monstrous, not to be told ; And bail ouce more to... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 176 pages
...dreary phantom arise and fly Far into the North, and battle, and seas of death. 4. Let it go or stay, so I wake to the higher aims Of a land that has lost for a little her last of gold, And love of a peace that was full of wrongs and shames. Horrible, hateful, monstrous,... | |
 | 1859 - 598 pages
...Peace Pipe on her pastoral hillock a languid note, And watch her harvest ripen, her herd increase. a peace that was full of wrongs and shames, Horrible, hateful, monstrous, not to be told . . . For the long long canker of peace is over and done : And now by the side of the Black and the... | |
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