 Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, So bountiful is Fate; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her. To front a lie in arms and not to yield, This shows, methinks, God's...  Modern Classics - Seite 761876Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1868 - 414 Seiten
...dared to stand beside her When craven churls deride her ; To face u He in arms, and not to yield. That shows methinks God's plan And measure of a stalwart man, Limbed like the old heroic creeds; Who stands self- poised on nature's solid earth ; Not forced to frame excuses for his birth,... | |
 | 1865 - 654 Seiten
...stalwart man, Limbed like tlie old heroic breeds, Who stands self-poised on manhood's solid earth, Kot forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength ho needs. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the "Nation he had led, With ashes on her head,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 504 Seiten
...as the field, So generous is Fate; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms and not to yield, — This shows,...with all the strength he needs. VI. Such was he, our Martyr- Chief, Whom late the Nation he had led, With ashes on her head, Wept with the passion of an... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 Seiten
...closet as the field, So generous is fate; But then to stand beside her When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms and not to yield, — This shows,...birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 2. Such was he, our martyr chief, Whom late the nation he had led, With ashes on her head, Wept with... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 Seiten
...her When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms and not to yield,— This shows, uiethinks, God's plan And measure of a stalwart man, Limbed like...heroic breeds, Who stands self-poised on manhood's sofid earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs.... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 Seiten
...closet as the field, So generous is fate; But then to stand beside her When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms and not to yield , — • This...birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 2. Such was he, our martyr chief, Whom late the nation he had led, With ashes on her head, Wept with... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...her, When craven churls deride her, To front я li'1 in arms and not to yield, This shows, metliinks, 2 stand self-poised on manhood's solid earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within... | |
 | 1872 - 900 Seiten
...as the field, So bountiful is Fate ; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To instruments defaced, — And great souls, at one stroke,...kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this h stand self-poised on manhood's solid earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1872 - 422 Seiten
...her poets : — A stalwart man, Limbed like the old heroic creeds, Who stands self-poised on nature's solid earth ; Not forced to frame excuses for his...birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. Back to old Paganism is that which the fool is now saying in his heart : and old Paganism is with such... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 Seiten
...stand beside- her When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms and not to yield, — Tins shows, methinks, God's plan And measure of a stalwart...birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 2. Such was he, our martyr chief, Whom late the nation he had l<;d, With ashes on her head, Wept with... | |
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