 | Joshua Rhodes Balme - Freed persons - 1863 - 308 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And every nation that should... | |
 | 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,...redeem the 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... | |
 | 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,...redeem the 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pages
...; Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the...with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps act! courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts :... | |
 | 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
...cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should... | |
 | 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,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts; The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And every nation that should lift... | |
 | 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,...redeem the 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 464 pages
...Is it, () man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the...Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, (liven to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 272 pages
...far distant when the acts of our law-makers and officers shall testify their belief, that " Were balf the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." — Ohio Educational Monthly. FIELD'S Jfamilj ffblnntu STORE, No. 205 Westminster... | |
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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 or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! 
