 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
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...lift again Its hand against its 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. LONGFELLOW. on Clmsto ONE of the conditions of the treaty with Mexico, it is said, is that any future... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...lift again Its hand against its 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. LONGFELLOW. on Cfmsto ONE of the conditions of the treaty with Mexico, it is said, is that any future... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 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,... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1855 - 392 pages
...still small voice of assurance so beautifully embodied in the following lines of Longfellow ? — " Down the dark future, through long generations, The...of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise." $u0Unti0ns at f$sf ittrarg DR. M'CRIE. THE name of the late Dr. M'Crie stood deservedly high in the... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1853 - 792 pages
...and the inhabitants of the earth. Thus " shall the voice of the battle be forever distant." Thus, " Down the dark future, through long generations, The...its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shake the skies ! But beautiful, as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise." HYMN... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1891 - 900 pages
...its fulfillment ; a vision thus expressed in those memorable lines in "The Arsenal at Springfield : "Down the dark future, through long generations, The...voice of Christ say Peace. — Peace, and no longer through its brazen portals, The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies. But beautiful as songs... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - Hymns, English - 1853 - 674 pages
...save the poor ! 498. 11 & I0s. M. 1 DOWN the dark future, through long generations, The sounds of war grow fainter, and then cease ; And like a bell with...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 ;... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...to this, Peace, which of all earthly blisses Is the brightest, purest bliss." — Violante Di Ceo. Down the dark future, through long generations, The...skies; But. beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holiest melodies of love arise. Longfellow. "Peace," shall the world outwearied ever see Its universal... | |
 | C M F - 1854 - 216 pages
...unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. — HOSEA ii. 19. "Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals, The...of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise." September 28th. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. (For the weapons of... | |
 | 1854 - 502 pages
...away, when — Down the dark fnture and through Ion? renerations, The echoing sounds grow fainter ana then cease; And, like a bell with solemn sweet vibrations,...I hear once more the voice of Christ say, " Peace 1" " Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals, The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies... | |
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