 Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!  History of the Town of Holland, Massachusetts - Page 325by Martin Lovering - 1915 - 749 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1901 - 744 pages
...can to help other nations to maintain their rights. For, after all, as James Russell Lowell asks : " Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...chains our brothers wear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free." This is the creed of Liberalism as Gladstone understood it, and as it... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - 1844 - 602 pages
...chain When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...our brothers wear, And with, heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free ! 3 They are slaves, who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1844 - 672 pages
...chain When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...chains our brothers wear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free ! 3 They are slaves, who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 584 pages
...veins, For your sisters now in chains, — Answer ! are ye fit to be Mothers of the brave and free ? Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free ! They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 308 pages
...veins, For your sisters now in chains, — Answer ! are ye fit to be Mothers of the brave and free ? Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free ! They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They... | |
 | 1845 - 234 pages
...K r? • 5 • •& ' -e ; * 1 1* v Mr « 1 " ' * 1 • 1 f S P z 1 c • S£ PP I 1 to je freed 1 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...leathern hearts forget That we owe mankind a debt 1 No ! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And with hand and heart to be Earnest... | |
 | 1849 - 478 pages
...chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...chains our brothers wear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free. 3 They are slaves, who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They... | |
 | Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - 1852 - 674 pages
...chain When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed ? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...chains our brothers wear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free ! d They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pages
...desire was to extend its blessing to his race, and in the language of the poet he would ask himself, " Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...chains our brothers wear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free." While acting as a servant to one of the steamers on Lake Erie, Brown... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - 1853 - 674 pages
...chain When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed ? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...chains our brothers wear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free. 3 They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They... | |
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