 | Fred Lewis Pattee - History - 1896 - 508 pages
...ending with the grand climax : " 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 ; " and the forty lines of Under the Old JElm, commencing " Virginia gave us this imperial man," should... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Americana - 1896 - 270 pages
...captains with their gnus and drums Disturb our judgment for the hour ; But at last silence comea : These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our...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 be also the verdict... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1900 - 712 pages
...Commemoration Ode " : — " Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone,...man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame." Do you see ? Lincoln to-day, in this nation, is mightier than all the men that ever led all its armies,... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - Ballads, English - 1896 - 344 pages
...unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 'twas they won it,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 618 pages
...judgment for the hour; But at last silence comes: These all arejgone, and standing like a tower, v- Our children shall behold his fame, — The kindly-earnest,...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 be also the verdict... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Library - Illinois - 1923 - 182 pages
...part in bringing to full flower the character so vividly portrayed by Lowell — "The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." 58 ON AND ABOUT THE NATIONAL ROAD IN THE EARLY FIFTIES. [By DR. CHARLES B. JOHNSON.] The whip how it... | |
 | Literature - 1865 - 658 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 • tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - Illinois - 1923 - 182 pages
...part in bringing to full flower the character so vividly portrayed by Lowell — "The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." 58 ON AND ABOUT THE NATIONAL ROAD IN THE EARLY FIFTIES. [By DR. CHARLES B. JOHNSON.] The whip how it... | |
 | Education - 1927 - 506 pages
...lured by any cheat of birth, But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. Lincoln's sayings were wise, and many have been pre*—' served. His epigrams are quoted almost as... | |
 | New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1900 - 322 pages
...their guns and drums Disturb our judgment for the hour ; But at last silence comes: These all nre gane, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-eainest, brave, foreseeing mnu, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise not blame, New birth of... | |
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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,... 
