 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 456 pages
...knew, O voice ! from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve ! to true occasion true, O fallen at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great world-victor's victor... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 802 pages
...which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all im-i, drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | Arthur Compton Auchmuty - 1895 - 172 pages
...which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. Such was he whom we deplore, The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1895 - 114 pages
...which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew I M Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's... | |
 | Alfred E. Chirm - American fiction - 1912 - 300 pages
...noiselessly passed over the threshold across which but one had entered a moment before. A STORM ANCHOR That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew. ' Tennyson FIVE years had gone by; years in which Burton Dane's name had become known in difficult... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1913 - 1092 pages
...which all men knew, О voice from which their omens all men drew, О iron nerve to true occasion true, ease 0 ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1913 - 1048 pages
...which all men knew, O voice from which their omens alf men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew ! Such was he whom we deplore. The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's victor... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Social Science - 1914 - 478 pages
...simplicity sublime. . . . O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew I THE loss which Yale has suffered in the retirement and death of Professor Sumner is one which no... | |
 | Freemasons. Michigan. Grand Council - 1915 - 182 pages
...exemplary life our lips involuntarily voice the words of Tennyson : "O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fall'n at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew." But on such an occasion speech is impotent. "Nothing can measure his high character but heaven; No... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...knew, О voice from which their omens all men drew, О iron nerve to true occasion true, О fallen company ! Such was he whom we deplore. 40 The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. The great World-victor's... | |
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Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. 
