 Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient,...  Apples of Gold: A Book of Selected Verse - Pàgina 175per Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 186 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1871 - 798 pàgines
...read by one of the noblest and most sorely tried of men, a hero comparable with any of Plutarch's, "The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." Dear old Thackeray ! — as everybody that knew him intimately calls him, now he is gone. That is his... | |
 | 1872 - 810 pàgines
...faith sublime, Till tne wise years decide. Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." FRENCH AND GERMAN.* Bv far the cleverest and most entertaining book that we have to notice this month... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pàgines
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kiudly-eurncst, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pàgines
...tune, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums Disturb our...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pàgines
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pàgines
...time. And can his fame abide. Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." l I have still, however, several countries to speak of tonight, and must break off attempting them.... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1869 - 524 pàgines
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. Such poetry as this makes one wish that somehow the customs of the republic could have devolved the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pàgines
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold bis fame, The kindly-earnest, bravo, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pàgines
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. ons of former years ; And shadows of things that have long since fled Flit over the brain, like t conies ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest,... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pàgines
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. T blanio, New birth of our new soil, the first American. JÄHES RUSSELL LOWELL. S 714 715 BURIAL OF LINCOLN.... | |
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