 The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.  Littell's Living Age - Page 4481868Full view - About this book
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pages
...see the storm, ashore. RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) BOSTON HYMN FROM LINTON'S 'POETRY OF AMERICA' THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...The outrage of the poor. Think ye I made this ball IO A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor? My... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1900 - 886 pages
...Monday in the Mall, For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail ? "—Boston. God said, ' I am tired of kings, I suffer them no...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. ' " My angel, — his name is Freedom,— Choose him to be your king ; He shall cut pathways east and... | |
 | 1902 - 364 pages
...eon'sti tute tin eov'er lin'e age fae'til t$ BOSTON HYMN. (Read in Music Hall, January 1, 1863.) 1. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. 2. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage... | |
 | Alexander McKenzie - 1903 - 312 pages
...picked out of the ocean on the point of a needle. The Imagination presents the project and its temper. " The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame." It was under the control of Imagination that Carlyle gave his tribute: "Hail to thee, poor little ship... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1903 - 60 pages
...Has lords enough and more— We plant and build by foaming seas A city of the poor. ' God said " I'm tired of kings, I suffer them no more ; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor." ' I will divide my goods ; Call in the wretch and slave : None shall rule but the humble, And none... | |
 | Charles De Forest Hoxie - 1903 - 226 pages
...county clerk or recorder, the state's attorney, the county court. God said, I am tired of kings, I'll suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. My angel — his name is freedom — Choose him to be your king ; And he shall cutpathways east and... | |
 | 1903 - 136 pages
...that His "service is perfect freedom," it may well have seemed that, as Emerson has expressed it: " God said, I am tired of kings I suffer them no more : My angel — his name is Freedom — Choose him to be your king." Other methods of dealing with unworthy... | |
 | 1903 - 450 pages
...treated me like a hog, sir ! Yes, sir, like a hog!" 28. Hymn of Freedom BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1863) THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, And they sat by the sea-side, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, — I am tired of Kings,... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1903 - 310 pages
...civilization is democracy. It is public opinion that rules the common judgment of the common man. •' God said, ' I am tired of kings; I suffer them no more, For to my ear each morning brings The outrage of the poor. Think you I made this ball A field of havoc... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, Elizabeth Stevens - 1903 - 448 pages
...treated me like a hog, sir! Yes, sir, like a hog!" 28. Hymn of Freedom BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1863) THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, And they sat by the sea-side, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, — I am tired of Kings,... | |
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