 | 1862 - 658 pages
...and the fierce shouts of angrv hosts, may hear once more " Nature's sweet aud kindly voices.' Ah! ' " Were half the power that fills the world with terror...Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, (iiven to redeem the human mind from Krror, Tin-re were no need of arsenals nor forte!" LILLIE BROWNE.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pages
...Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps act! courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ! 9. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals aud forts. 10. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! ' And every nation that should lift again... | |
 | John Cumming - 1863 - 340 pages
...beneficence, and charity, and self-sacrifice. The poet has sung with some exaggeration a great truth:— " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." We thus write, not because we have any sympathy whatever with Messrs. Bright and Cobden... | |
 | John Henry Hayward - American poetry - 1863 - 410 pages
...bestow'd on camps and courts, Giv'n to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need ol arsenals or forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!...again its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain. Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
 | William Kidd - 1863 - 76 pages
...BBITISH SONG-BIBDS ;" ETC., AND EDITOB OF "KIDD'S JOUBNAL AND BOOK OF NATUBE." TWENTY-SIXTH THOUSAND. " Were half the power that fills the World with terror,...Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Giv*n to redeem the humau mind from Error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts." — LONGOLLI... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...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 echoing... | |
 | American poetry - 1864 - 428 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies i Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Down the dark future, through iong generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And... | |
 | Viator - Washington (D.C.) - 1864 - 302 pages
...there could hardly be any use in such constant forging of implements of war in this civilized land. " Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts." Besides the evidences that war is really upon us which are presented in the active preparation... | |
 | John Henry Hayward - American poetry - 1864 - 418 pages
...bestow'd on camps and courts, Giv'n to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts. **" The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain. Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
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Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! 
