 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,...  Little Classics - Page 224edited by - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Oscar Lovell Triggs - Democracy - 1893 - 168 pages
...faith. " The sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands.'' WHITMAN : Burial " The kindly, earnest, brave foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." LOWELL : Commemoration Ode. Happily, Lincoln's name is enshrined in the two noblest of songs, which... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 608 pages
...with their guns and drums Disturb our judgment for the hour. But at last silence comes ; These are all gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, far-seeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, I attempt no... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - 1893 - 564 pages
...with their guns and drums Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These are all gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly, earnest, brave, far-seeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - American literature - 1894 - 680 pages
...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...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. WORDSWORTH. [Among My Bookn. Second Series. 1876.] from Wordsworth all which an honest criticism cannot... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1894 - 558 pages
...These all are gone, and. standing like a toner, 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." AUTHORITIES. The most voluminous of the Lives of Abraham Lincoln is that of Xicolay and Hay, which... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1894 - 742 pages
...all are g >ne, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fume, The kindly-eainest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." It is a poet's verdict ; but it rings in the authentic tone of the seer. It must also be the verdict... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1894 - 564 pages
...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, dreading praise, not blame. Xew birth of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 pages
...with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These are all gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame; The kindly-earnest, brave, far-seeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...LINCOLN, THE FIRST AMERICAN. D. THOMPSON. : . Oar children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame ; New birth of our new «oil— ike Jirst American. — Lowwi. POPULAR EDITION. Copyright By CRANSTON & CURT8J 1894. PREFACE.... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - Presidents - 1894 - 250 pages
...LINCOLN, ,-r THE FIRST, AMERICAN. DD THOMPSON. Our children slmll behold Ml fame. The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame; New birth of our new aoil— the first American. — LOWBU. POPULAR EDITION. CINCINNATI: JENNINGS & GRAHAM NEW YORK: EATON... | |
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