OUR fellow-countrymen in chains! Slaves — in a land of light and law! Slaves — crouching on the very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's war! A groan from Eutaw's haunted wood — A wail where Camden's martyrs fell — By every shrine of patriot... Poems: By John G. Whittier, Illus. by H. Billing - Page 133by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1855 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1878 - 556 pages
...slaves — crouching on the very plains Wiicre rolled the storm of Freedom's war! A groan from Etitaw's haunted wood, — A wail where Camden's martyrs fell,—...of patriot blood, From Moultrie's wall and Jasper's welll By storied hill and hallowed grot, By mossy wood and marshy glen, Whence rang of old the rifle-shot,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1880 - 530 pages
...earth cry out to thee, Aha! Aha! — ART TIIOC BECOME u« inrro os?" — Speech of Samuel J. May.l OUR fellow-countrymen in chains ! Slaves — in a land of light and law ! Slaves — crouching on the vejy plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's war ! A groan from Eutaw's hannted wood, — A wail... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 570 pages
...in chains i Slaves — in a land of light and iaw i slaves — crouching on the very plains WL,ere rolled the storm of Freedom's war! A groan from Eutaw's...patriot blood, From Moultrie's wall and Jasper's well I By storied hill and hallowed grot, By mossy wood and marshy glen, Whence rang of old the rifle-shot,... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1881 - 674 pages
...foi them day and night." Never till then had I felt the full force of Whittier's burning lines: — " A groan from Eutaw's haunted wood, — A wail where...patriot blood, From Moultrie's wall and Jasper's well I By storied hill and hallowed grot, By mossy wood and marshy glen, Whence rang of old the rifle-shot,... | |
| Robert Scott Fittis - Genealogy - 1881 - 580 pages
...of the facts connected with Trochrie Castle. 324 THE DAYS OF SERFDOM Ilf SCOTLAND.— Part 1st. Our fellow-countrymen in chains ! Slaves — in a land...very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's war I Whittier'a " Voicei of Freedom." "BRITONS never will be slaves!" Long has this refrain been, and... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - Indians of North America - 1882 - 502 pages
...commencement of agitation on the slavery question his thoughts were of his fellow-creatures in chains: " Our fellow-countrymen in chains ! Slaves — in a land...patriot blood, From Moultrie's wall and Jasper's well !" From that hour he became the poet of Freedom, wielding a weighty influence for the removal of the... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - African Americans - 1882 - 496 pages
...in chains: "Our fellow-countrymen in chains! Slaves—in a land of light and law! Slaves—crouching on the very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's...patriot blood, From Moultrie's wall and Jasper's well!" From that hour he became the poet of Freedom, wielding a weighty influence for the removal of the gigantic... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - African Americans - 1882 - 504 pages
...commencement of agitation on the slavery question his thoughts were of his fellow-creatures in chains: "Our fellow-countrymen in chains! Slaves — in a land...Freedom's war! A groan from Eutaw's haunted wood — A wuil where Camdeu's martyrs fell — By every shrine of patriot blood, From Moultrie's wall and Jasper's... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...market-place Hath in her suffering won? и. WHITTIER — Voices of Freedom. Tlit C/tristian Ulan. Our fellow-countrymen in chains! Slaves — in a land...very plains Where rolled the storm of Freedom's war' o. WHITTIER — I UI'CM of Freedom. Stanuts. Right onward, () speed it! Wherever the blood Of the wronged... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1888 - 534 pages
...earth cry out to thee, Aha! Aha! —ART THOU BECOME LIKE UNTO US?" — Speech of Samuel J. Mcty.] OCR fellow-countrymen in chains ! Slaves — in a land...every shrine of patriot blood, From Moultrie's wall mid Jaspar's well! By storied hill and hallowed grot, By mossy wood and marshy glen, The groan of breaking... | |
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