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" 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. "
Centennial Orations Commemorative of the Opening Events of the American ... - Page 129
by New England Historic Genealogical Society - 1875 - 176 pages
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...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 those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...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, 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...
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Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...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, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently...
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The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 pages
...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, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently...
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Homes of American Authors

1853 - 516 pages
...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...
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Choice Specimens of American Literature

Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 236 pages
...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, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently...
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 29

1875 - 562 pages
...constructed to give access to the spot ' Where once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot beard round the world ;' and thus enable future visitors...their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons arc gone.' " To properly carry out this plan, the town or its citizens may be called upon to provide...
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Michigan and the Centennial: Being a Memorial Record Appropriate to the ...

Stephen Bromley McCracken - 1876 - 714 pages
...stream that seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently...
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The Great Centennial Exhibition

1876 - 558 pages
...ttream which seaward creeps. On the green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit that made those heroes dare To die and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently...
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Selected Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...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, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently...
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