 twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. We welcome back our bravest and our best;— Ah me! not all! some come not with the rest, Who went forth brave and bright as any here! I strive to mix some gladness with my...  The American Historical Review - Página 299editado por - 1908Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 518 páginas
...And seal these hours the noblest of our year, Save that our brothers found this better way ? Vill. We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. We welcome back... | |
 | 1868 - 556 páginas
...then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms, and not to yield 1 We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. We welcome back... | |
 | 1868 - 850 páginas
...her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms, and not to yield 1 MEMORIAL LITERATURE. We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey nnd milk ; But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. We welcome... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 páginas
...And seal these hours the noblest of our year,. Save that our brothers found this better way ? VIII. We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. 19 We welcome... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1869 - 214 páginas
...poet here adopts that tone of grave and elevated simplicity which is the essence of lyric majesty:— We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. We welcome back... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 páginas
...man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us and milk; But 'twas they won it, sword in as silk. We welcome... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 páginas
...And seal these hours the noblest of our year, Save that our brothers found this better way ? VIII. We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. We welcome back... | |
 | Sudbury (Mass.) - 1876 - 60 páginas
...the enclosure where he is, and sees and recognizes him as he walks to and fro in quiet meditation. " We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk; But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk." Let the story... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 páginas
...man, .Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk : But 'twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. We weleome back... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 páginas
...And seal these hours the noblest of our year, Save that our brothers found this better way ? VIII. We sit here in the Promised Land That flows with Freedom's honey and milk ; But 't was they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. We welcome back... | |
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