...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...on states +dissevered, + discordant, +belligerent; our land rent with civil +feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! ont the earth, still...

...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once-glorious Union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds,...

...behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered,...land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, with fraternal blood. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign...

...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes," he said on that great occasion, " are turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, -may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on...

...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes/' he said on that great occasion, " are turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on...

...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes," he said, on that great occasion, " are turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not sec him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered,...

...rejoiced that when, for the "las* time, he turned his eyes to behold the sun in heaven, he did not see it shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union." But that his "last and lingering glance did behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and...

...it, although it had been opened to him in vision, that within the next natural day his " eyes should be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven." To accuse him in that act of " sinning against his own conscience," is to charge, one of these things...

...his hearers up to his theme. His voice, exerted to its utmost power, nenetrated every recess or x>mer of the senate — penetrated even the ante-rooms and...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal Wood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic,...

...power, penetrates every recess of the Senate, and even the ante-rooms and stairways, as he pronounces, in deepest tones of pathos, these words of solemn...time, the sun 'in heaven, may I not see him shining upon the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant,...