 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 326 pages
...Then Nature must teach us the strength of the chain That her petulant children would sever in vain. They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their...torrents that rush from the mountains of snow Roll mingled in peace through the valleys below. Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky : Man breaks not... | |
 | United States - 1862 - 200 pages
...3d. Long cabinet meeting on Port Sumter business. Great activity in the navy department. CHAPTER IV. In vain is the strife : when its fury is past, Their...torrents that rush from the mountains of snow Roll, mingled in peace, through the valleys below. ATLANTIC MONTHLY. NOTHING can be more absurd than the... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Puritans - 1863 - 24 pages
...the soil, I 'Till the wolves and the catamounts troop from their с4ves, And the spark tracks th» pirate, the lord of the waves. In vain is the strife ! When its fury is jtest, Their f -rtunes must flow in one channel at last ; (cheers ;) As the torrents that rush from... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 304 pages
...Then nature must teach us the strength of the chain, That her pctulent children would sever in vain. They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their...torrents that rush from the mountains of snow, Roll mingled in peace through the valleys below. TAKE NOTICE. — We shall give in the first number of Vol.... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - African-American soldiers - 1865 - 468 pages
...Then Nature must teach us the strength of the chain That her petulant children would sever in vain. " They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their...spoil, Till the harvest grows black as it rots in its soil, Till the wolves and the catamounts troop from their caves, And the shark tracks the pirate,... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - History - 1865 - 486 pages
...of the chain That her petulant children would sever in vain. " They may fight till the buzzards arc gorged with their spoil, Till the harvest grows black as it rots in its soil, Till the wolves and the catamounts troop from their caves, And the shark tracks the pirate,... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1866 - 654 pages
...Then Nature must teach us the strength of the chain That her petulant children would sever in vain. They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their...torrents that rush from the mountains of snow Roll mingled in peace through the valleys below. Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky : Man breaks not... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 352 pages
...Then Nature must teach us the strength of the chain That her petulant children would sever in vain. They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their...torrents that rush from the mountains of snow Roll mingled in peace through the valleys below. Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky : Man breaks not... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Massachusetts - 1866 - 948 pages
...Then Nature must teach us the strength of the chain That her petulant children would sever in vain. They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their...torrents that rush from the mountains of snow Roll mingled in peace through the valleys below. Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky : Man breaks not... | |
 | Frank Moore - History - 1867 - 602 pages
...Then Nature must teach us the strength of the chain That her petulant children would sever in vain. They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their...torrents that rush from the mountains of snow Roll mingled in peace through the valleys below. Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not... | |
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Has our love all died out? Have its altars grown cold? Has the curse come at last which the fathers foretold? Then Nature must teach us the strength of the chain That her petulant children would sever in vain. 
