 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...celestial harmonies 1 Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind...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... | |
 | John Cumming - Miracles - 1852 - 660 pages
...in camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts ; The warrior's name would be a name abhorred,...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain. Down the dark future, through long generations, War's echoing... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 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 forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 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,...human mind from error, There were no need of Arsenals and forts. V The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies 1 Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of Arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...Choose the ways I once abhorred, Find at times the promise sweet, If I did not love the Lord? Newton. 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. . Longfellow. ABIDE— ABODE. FOR we are strangers before... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...she sleeps.1 1 Were half the power that fills the world with torroi, Were half the wealth, bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind...forts! The warrior's name would be a name abhorred I And every nation that should lift Rjraln IU hand against its brother, on Its forehead THE POET'S... | |
 | 1854 - 594 pages
...proclaim iu the ears of all the people — " Were half the power that fills tho world with terrorWere half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given...human mind from error. There were no need of arsenals or forts." And bad as things now appear, we may bclievingly hope that the time is rapidly approaching,... | |
 | Sacred poetry - 1854 - 268 pages
...pride. CHARLES LAMB. Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor of forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorr'd ; And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 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... | |
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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! 
