 | John Lord - History - 1894 - 564 pages
...Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone,...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame. Xew birth of... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1894 - 742 pages
...all are g >ne, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fume, The kindly-eainest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." It is a poet's verdict ; but it rings in the authentic tone of the seer. It must also be the verdict... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 pages
...with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These are all gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame; The kindly-earnest, brave, far-seeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - Presidents - 1894 - 250 pages
...LINCOLN, ,-r THE FIRST, AMERICAN. DD THOMPSON. Our children slmll behold Ml fame. The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame; New birth of our new aoil— the first American. — LOWBU. POPULAR EDITION. CINCINNATI: JENNINGS & GRAHAM NEW YORK: EATON... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1894 - 558 pages
...Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and. standing like a toner, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly earnest, brave, foreseeing man. Sagacious, patient,... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...LINCOLN, THE FIRST AMERICAN. D. THOMPSON. : . Oar children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame ; New birth of our new «oil— ike Jirst American. — Lowwi. POPULAR EDITION. Copyright By CRANSTON & CURT8J 1894. PREFACE.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 pages
...Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes : These all are gone,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. THE GREATNESS OF LINCOLN. We almost invariably find that the more completely the records of great historical... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1895 - 574 pages
...the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums. Disturb our judgment for the hoar, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and,...praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the 6ist American. 400 COMMEMORATION DDK. / VIL Long as mac's hope insatiate can discern Or only guess... | |
 | Amos Russell Wells - Amusements - 1895 - 180 pages
...referred to Liliuokalani. Again, another quotation was used from Lowell : — " The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." This referred, of course, to Abraham Lincoln, but a few of the players got it George Washington. Here... | |
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He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. *» Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and,... 
