Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. Complete Works - Page 139by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; 10 That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...Conqueror silent sleeps, And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day...redeem, When like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...Conqueror silent sleeps, And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day...a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, \Vhen like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit ! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 pages
...conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
| 1853 - 516 pages
...has swept Down the dark stream that scawnnl creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft stream, We sec to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons nre gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
| 1853 - 478 pages
...has swept Down the dark stream that seaward creeps. "On this green bank, by this soft stream, We see to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sous are gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time... | |
| Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 236 pages
...conqueror silent sleeps ; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1917 - 592 pages
...war to make the world "safe for democracy." Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his "Concord Hymn," invoked the Spirit that made those heroes dare To die and leave their children free — and it is this spirit that inspires the soldiers who are fighting in the cause of liberty to-day.... | |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society - 1875 - 196 pages
...the world ;' and thus enable future visitors to realize, as far as may be, both actors and scene ; ' That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.' " To properly carry out this plan, the town or its citizens may be called upon to provide additional... | |
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