 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1905 - 332 pages
...lyric majesty. " We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk; But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger...as silk. We welcome back our bravest and our best; I strive to mix some gladness with my strain, But the sad strings complain, And will not please the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1905 - 148 pages
...our year, 230 VIII We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. 235 We welcome back our bravest and our best ; — Ah me ! not all ! some come not with the rest, Who... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1905 - 148 pages
...our year, 230 vm We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. 236 We welcome back our bravest and our best ; — Ah me 1 not all ! some come not with the rest, Who... | |
 | American poetry - 1905 - 252 pages
...better way? VIII We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. 235 We welcome back our bravest and our best ; — Ah me ! not all ! some come not with the rest, Who... | |
 | United States - 1905 - 962 pages
...FLETCHER JOHNSÏTO "We sit here in the promised land, That flows with honey, freedom and milk ; But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk." And who were they, our fathers? In their veins Ran the best blood of England's gentlemen, Her bravest... | |
 | Edward Waldo Emerson - United States - 1907 - 558 pages
...referred to in Colonel Lowell's Letters ..... 368 That flows with Freedom's honey and milk; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle...rest, Who went forth brave and bright as any here ! In these brave ranks I only see the gaps, Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb turf wraps, Dark to... | |
 | Arlington (Mass.) - Arlington (Mass.) - 1907 - 116 pages
...and make it free. "We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk." Were there time it would be fitting to tell the whole story of these men, and of those other sons whom... | |
 | Edwin Holt Hughes - Citizenship - 1909 - 268 pages
...sacrifice : " We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk." " I see them muster in a gleaming row, With ever-youthful brows that nobler show ; We find in our dull... | |
 | Lexington Historical Society (Mass.) - Lexington (Mass. : Town) - 1900 - 264 pages
...existence. " We sit here, in the Promised Land, That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk." But while men met the great shock of war with manly bravery and courage, women bore their humbler part... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American poetry - 1912 - 702 pages
...better way ? VIII We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk; But 't was they won it, sword in hand. Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. "5 We welcome back our bravest and our best — Who went forth brave and bright as any here! I strive... | |
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We welcome back our bravest and our best ;— Ah me! not all! some come not with the rest, Who went forth brave and bright as any here! 
