 Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient,...  Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine - Page 6461909Full view - About this book
 | 1871 - 798 pages
...read by one of the noblest and most sorely tried of men, a hero comparable with any of Plutarch's, "The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." Dear old Thackeray ! — as everybody that knew him intimately calls him, now he is gone. That is his... | |
 | 1872 - 810 pages
...faith sublime, Till tne wise years decide. Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." FRENCH AND GERMAN.* Bv far the cleverest and most entertaining book that we have to notice this month... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kiudly-eurncst, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. — Atlantic AfontJJy. LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.-NO. 1120.- 18 NOVEMBER, 1865. From the Fortnightly Review.... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 518 pages
...silence comes : These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. vn. Long as man's hope insatiate can discern Or only guess some more inspiring goal Outside of Self,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American, LH — ^THE MAIN TRUCK, OB A LEAP FOR LIFE. GP MORRIS. 1. Old Ironsides at anchor lay, In the harbor... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. LIE.- THE MAIN TKUCK, OR A LEAP FOR LIFE. GP MOEBIS. 1. Old Irousides at anchor lay, In the harbor... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pages
...silence comes : These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." l I have still, however, several countries to speak of tonight, and must break off attempting them.... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1869 - 524 pages
...silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. Such poetry as this makes one wish that somehow the customs of the republic could have devolved the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pages
...are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold bis fame, The kindly-earnest, bravo, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. vn. Long as man's hope insatiate can discern Or only guess some more inspiring goal Outside of Self,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...silence conies ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, eparted ere manhood's ^ "P 1871 J.B....Company"1 Bryant William Cullen" William Cullen Bryant( JAMES RUSSBU. LOWBLU 1 -rr BURIAL OF LINCOLN. PEACE ! Let the long procession come, For hark ! —... | |
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