 Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace !" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast...  Poems - Page 22by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. NUREMBERG. IN the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands Rise the blue Franconian mountains,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...should lift again Its hand against u brother, on its forehead Would wearforevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. VOICES OF THE TRUE-HEARTED. THE ECONOMY OF SLAVERY. BY LYDIA MARIA CHILD. On the Battery, the other... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...should lift again Its hand against u brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice ol Christ say, " Peace !" Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...lift again Its hand against a brother — on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ му, "Peace!" Peace, and no longer from it« brazen portals The blast of war's great organ shakes... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1873 - 398 pages
...land echoing the song of Bethlehem — Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will to men. Down the dark future, through long generations, The...solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Chriel say, Peace. DEW-DR'OPS OF THE LAW OF KINDNESS, No. 1C. (IH SHORT WORDS — FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.)... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. Down the dark future, through long generations, The...of the Immortals, The holy melodies of love arise." Music has a wonderfully soothing in- sentially teetotal, and yet inspiring. We fluence ; purer than... | |
 | 1856 - 1270 pages
...evermore the curse of Cain. Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing grow familiar, then cease ! And like a bell with solemn sweet vibrations,...skies ! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holiest melodies of love arise. London. LOEOFELLOW. This telescopic view of Saturn being a little exaggerated,... | |
 | Hymns - 1849 - 478 pages
...M. LONGFELLOW. PEACE ON EARTH. 1 DOWN the dark future, through long generations, The sounds of war grow fainter and then cease ; And, like a bell with...I hear once more the voice of Christ say, " Peace !" 2 Peace ! and no longer, from its brazen portals, The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies... | |
 | Gems - 1850 - 204 pages
...lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. WH LONGFELLOW. EARTH'S ANGELS. WHY come not spirits from the realms of glory To visit earth, as in... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Down the dark future, through long generations, The...of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise. NUREMBERG. IN the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands Rise the blue Franconian mountains,... | |
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