 Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank,...  The American School Readers: Primer, [First- reader] - Page 148by Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1912Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; 10 That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our...heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare 15 The shaft we raise to them and thee. THE HUMBLE-BEE. BURLY, dozing... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like...heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. FORBEARANCE. HAST thou named... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...sires our sons are gone. Spirit ! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee." 1. The Silent Pastor, or Consolations for the Sick. By Thomas Sadler, Ph.D. 18mo. Pp. 128. Chapman,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 pages
...the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
 | 1853 - 516 pages
...sires, our sons nre gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and Thee." Close under the rough stone wall at the left, which separates it from the little grassy orchard of... | |
 | 1853 - 504 pages
...dark stream that seaward creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft strewn, We see to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our eons are gone. '• Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 236 pages
...the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like...gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1917 - 592 pages
...war to make the world "safe for democracy." Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his "Concord Hymn," invoked the Spirit that made those heroes dare To die and leave their children free — and it is this spirit that inspires the soldiers who are fighting in the cause of liberty to-day.... | |
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