| United States - 1825 - 398 pages
...therefore, as the most suitable sentiment, with which we should commence,, The memory of our Fathers. They to life's noblest end Gave up life's noblest powers....bade the legacy descend Down, down to us and ours. The President then proceeded to say, — We have spoken of our Fathers, let me next propose to you... | |
| Charles Sprague - 1829 - 66 pages
...banished Fathers strayed, There, where they loved and wept and prayed, There, where their ashes rest. XI. And never may they rest unsung, While liberty can...bade the legacy descend, Down, down to us and ours. XII. By centuries now the glorious hour we mark, When to these shores they steered their shattered... | |
| Charles Sprague - Boston (Mass.) - 1830 - 120 pages
...banished Fathers strayed, There, where they loved and wept and prayed, There, where their ashes rest. XL And never may they rest unsung, While liberty can...bade the legacy descend, Down, down to us and ours. XII. By centuries now the glorious hour we mark, When to these shores they steered their shattered... | |
| 1831 - 596 pages
...rest. And never may they rest unsung, XVhile Liberty can find a tongue. Twine, Gratitude, a wrosth for them. More deathless than the diadem, Who to life's...noblest powers, And bade the legacy descend, Down, tlown te us and ours. • **«*« AH gone ! 'tis ours, the goodly land — Look round — the heritage... | |
| Charles Sprague - 1841 - 222 pages
...banished Fathers strayed, There, where they loved, and wept, and prayed, There, where their ashes rest. XL And never may they rest unsung, While liberty can...life's noblest powers, And bade the legacy descend IJown, down to us and ours. XII. By centuries now the glorious hour we mark, When to these shores they... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...banish'd fathers stray'd, There, where they loved, and wept, and pray'd, There, where their ashes rest. And never may they rest unsung, While Liberty can...bade the legacy descend Down, down to us and ours. By centuries now the glorious hour we mark, When to these shores they steer"d their shatter'd bark... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...banish'd fathers stray'd, There, where they loved, and wept, and pray'd, There, where their ashes rest. And never may they rest unsung. While Liberty can...powers. And bade the legacy descend Down, down to us and oun. By centuries now the glorious hour we mark, When to these shores they steer'd their shatter'd... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...hanish'd fathers stray'd, There, where they loved, and wept, and prty'd, There, where their ashes rest. And never may they rest unsung, While Liberty can...diadem, Who, to life's noblest end. Gave up life's nobtest powers, And bade the legacy descend Down, down to us and ours. By centuries now the glorious... | |
| William Shaw Russell - Massachusetts - 1846 - 450 pages
...banished fathers strayed, There, where they loved, and wept, and prayed, There, where their ashes rest. And never may they rest unsung, While Liberty can...deathless than the diadem, Who to life's noblest end, SONG OF THE PILGRIMS. The breeze has swelled the whitening sail, The blue waves curl beneath the gale,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...banished fathers strayed, There, where they loved, and wept, and prayed, There, where their ashes rest. And never may they rest unsung, While Liberty can find a tongue. ' . f Twine, Gratitude, a wreath for them, More deathless than the diadem, Who to life's noblest end,... | |
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