 | Henry Martyn Burt - 1867 - 294 pages
...lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain! + Down the dark future, through long generations, The...hear once more the voice of Christ say, " Peace!" Peace!—and no longer from its brazen portals, The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies; But... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 482 pages
...lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...hear once more the voice of Christ say, " Peace!" I Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! A... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 pages
...again Its hand against its brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! 11. Down the dark future, through long generations, The...I hear once more the voice of Christ say, " Peace ! " 12. Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow famter and then cease ; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet...! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast ofWar'sgreat organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of... | |
 | John Ross MacDuff - 1869 - 312 pages
...meaning illustrated and vindicated, in loving hearts, in a united Church, in a converted world ! " Down the dark future, through long generations, The...and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of dismal war-sounds shakes the skies, But, beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 396 pages
...again Its hand against its brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! 11. Down the dark future, through long generations, The...I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace!" 12. Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies !... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...nation, that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain I Down the dark future, through...portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE. THIS... | |
 | Edward Brown (of Brooklyn, N.Y.) - 1870 - 28 pages
...musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. * * * "Down the dark future through long generations, The...I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace!" What a long line of distinguished names in Philanthropy, Science, and Literature, do honor to the Quaker... | |
 | 1870 - 574 pages
...tested war's horrors by actual experience. May the voice of poetry be one day the voice of truth ! — "Down the dark future, through long generations, The...vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, Peace 1 " A NOBLE SENTIMENT. REV. R. COLYEE, of Chicago, in a letter to The Liberal Christian in which he... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pages
...lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...portals The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies ; But, beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. The... | |
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Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast... 
