 | Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, 156 Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. We welcome back our bravest and our best ; — Ah me I not all ! some come not with the rest, Who went forth brave and bright as any here I I strive to... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1917 - 662 pages
...better way Т vin We eit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But Ч was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle...gladness with my strain. But the sad strings complain, з 1 1 And will not please the ear : I sweep them for a paean, but they wane Again and yet again Into... | |
 | 1919 - 966 pages
...first American. We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But Ч in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary «5 We welcome back our bravest and our best ; — Ah, me ! not all ! some come not with the rest,... | |
 | 1921 - 586 pages
...serve. We saw the soldier boys marching away — heartbreaking but inspiring ! We saw them return, but, Ah me, not all ; some come not with the rest, Who went forth brave and bright as any here. we were. Small and selfish plans must give way in the presence of high thought and gallant deed. Brave... | |
 | Walter Wilbur Hatfield, Anne Laura McGregor - English language - 1922 - 228 pages
...—LONGFELLOW. 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. *By permission of and special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers.... | |
 | Walter Wilbur Hatfield, Anne Laura McGregor - English language - 1922 - 624 pages
...— LONGFELLOW . 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. Blow, trumpets, all your exultations blow ! For never shall their aureoled presence lack: I see them... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1926 - 1162 pages
...and milk; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. 225 We welcome back our bravest and our best; — Ah,...gladness with my strain, But the sad strings complain, 2 3<> And will not please the ear; I sweep them for a pcean, but they wane That is best blood that... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - American literature - 1926 - 1160 pages
...and milk; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. «s g v V B ˹ C V % 9y | $ Z % @F` &r 'W(V t 9 zn rk D c } 0 ] + phM (/ Au 5 ۞ i * x d [$ i| dn N(_ herel I strive to mix some gladness with my strain, But the sad strings complain, 2J° And will not... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 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... | |
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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! 
