 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 588 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may 1 not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments* of a once glorious union ; on states... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1855 - 902 pages
...joins in the memorable aspiration of Webster, (in his reply to Hayne,) that when his " eyes should be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, he might not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments x>fa once glorious Union ; on States... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States severed, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...least, that curtain mny not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 282 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent ; or on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 286 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent; or on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for fhe last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...ante-rooms and stairways, as he pronounced in deepest tones of pathos these words of solemn significance: 'When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent! on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 690 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may bo opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil fends, or drenched, it may... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 164 pages
...pronounce soil to rhyme with isle ; but give the oi its true sound, as in coin. LIBERTY AND UNION. WHEN my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it... | |
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When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... 
