 Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,...  American Literature - Page 116by Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on liis world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on §omo worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old World mould aside she threw, And, choo>ing... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 518 pages
...things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man...plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old- World mould aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 504 pages
...And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old- World mould aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the...unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. 3. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man,...some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote ; For him the old-world mold aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. 3. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man,...some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote ; For him the old-world mold aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West,... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...if they had been so ascribed, would only have made him look ridiculous. Here is the passage : — " Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Eepeating us by rote : For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pages
...I turn, To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honoured urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man, Save on some worn-out plan, Eepeating as by rote : For him her Old- World mould aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 pages
...turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. 3. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man, Save on some worn-out plan, Eepeating us by rote ; For him the old-world mold aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1869 - 524 pages
...I turn, To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man...unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pages
...things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man...rote: For him her Old World moulds aside she threw, Aud, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero... | |
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