| Samuel Silas Curry - 1896 - 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.... | |
| Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - 1912 - 428 pages
...come after us we commend the story it tells, to all time: On this green bank, by this soft stream, \Ve set to-day a votive stone: That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. ACCEPTANCE OF TABLET. Mayor FB McClaln was present to accept the tablet on behalf of tie city, and... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1896 - 470 pages
...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 spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee. Close under the rough stone wall at the left, which separates it from the grassy orchard of the Manse,... | |
| David Henry Montgomery - 1896 - 344 pages
...silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On the green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; 2 That memory may her dead redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 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...gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857 o TENDERLY the haughty day Fills his blue urn with... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 220 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...are gone. Spirit that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare THE TWO OFFAS. i. A very long time ago... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 430 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...are gone. Spirit that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare THE TWO OFFAS. I. A very long time ago... | |
| 1897 - 568 pages
...has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. 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. AIDS TO READERS. HOW TO USE THE CATALOGUE. Some of the criticisms of the Library... | |
| Walter Learned - 1897 - 338 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 dead redeem. When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or... | |
| William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836. 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. Y the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled. Here once the embattled... | |
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