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" Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. "
Littell's Living Age - Page 448
1868
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The Spiritual Outlook: A Survey of the Religious Life of Our Time as Related ...

Willard Chamberlain Selleck - 1902 - 372 pages
...In the midst of the war, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote : — " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the cup to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." Those four lines punctured the fallacy of the ages, and struck to the heart of the great question of...
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Source-readers in American History ...

1903 - 450 pages
...creature His proper good to flow : So much as he is and doeth, So much he shall bestow. But, laying his hands on another To coin his labor and sweat, He goes...owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him ! O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South ! for his shame ; Nevada ! coin thy golden...
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The Romance of the Civil War

Albert Bushnell Hart, Elizabeth Stevens - 1903 - 448 pages
...creature His proper good to flow : So much as he is and doeth, So much he shall bestow. But, laying his hands on another To coin his labor and sweat, He goes...owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. . Pay him ! O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South ! for his shame ; Nevada ! coin thy golden...
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The Romance of the Civil War

Albert Bushnell Hart, Elizabeth Stevens - 1903 - 448 pages
...proper good to flow : So much as he is and doeth, So much he shall bestow. But, laying his hands oh another To coin his labor and sweat, He goes in pawn...owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him ! O North! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South ! for his shame; Nevada! coin thy golden crags...
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Clews to Emerson's Mystic Verse

William Sloane Kennedy - 1903 - 102 pages
...thrill of emphasis lie gave to those stern and vivid words as they rang out to the eager cro-wd: " " Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." At first he had been in favor of paying the masters, as Great Britain did, but was brought over to...
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Apples of Gold: A Book of Selected Verse

Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 226 pages
...the captive, So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. Boston Hymn.. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Love thyself last. Cherish those hearts that hate thee. Corruption...
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The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson: As Observed in Concord ...

Social Circle in Concord - 1903 - 170 pages
...Emerson's " Boston Hymn." When he came to the lines — " Pay ransom to the owner And fill his cup to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him 1 " — I watched their faces as he read. There was no look of wild excitement, no air of aroused and...
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Apples of Gold: A Book of Selected Verse

Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 244 pages
...the captive, So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner t The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. .Boston lly-iim. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Love thyself last....
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“The” Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Poems. 1884, repr. 1897

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 348 pages
...the captive, So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner t The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. 0 North ! give him beauty for rags, And honour, 0 South...
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Apples of Gold: A Book of Selected Verse

Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 224 pages
...the captive, So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner t The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. Boston Hymn. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Love thyself last. Cherish...
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