| George William Curtis - 1894 - 310 pages
...We see 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,...spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee." Close Tinder the rough stone wall at the left, which separates it from the little grassy orchard of the Manse,... | |
| California. State Board of Education - 1893 - 248 pages
...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 spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. — RWEmerson. 4. AMERICA. Now praise to God's oft -granted grace! Now praise to Man's undaunted face!... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 328 pages
...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 spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. NOTES. PACE 1. — The Whistle. Franklin was one of three commissioners appointed by Congress, Sept.... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1896 - 568 pages
...We see 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...stone wall at the left, which separates it from the grassy orchard of the Manse, is a small mount! of turf and a broken stone. Grave and headstone shrink... | |
| Samuel Silas Curry - 1896 - 388 pages
...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 !...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. Emtrton. This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England I — This England never did, nor... | |
| Robert Comfort Metcalf, Orville T. Bright - 1896 - 268 pages
...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 spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. — RALPH W. EMERSON. LESSON CCXVI. COMPOSITION. 1. Arrange notes for a connected account of the way... | |
| David Henry Montgomery - 1896 - 344 pages
...dead 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 spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. • RW EMERSON. 1 The battle of Concord, Mass., April 19, 1775, was the opening battle of the Revolution.... | |
| James Russell Parsons - 1896 - 140 pages
...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 spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. — Ralph Waldo Einer s -m OLD IRONSIDES And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ;... | |
| 1896 - 532 pages
...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 spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. THE HUMBLE-BEE BURLY, dozing humble-bee, Where thou art is clime for me. Let them sail for Porto Rique,... | |
| William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. Spirit that made those heroes dare To die or leave their children free, Bid...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. THE RHODORA. N May, when sea- winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,... | |
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