Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts; The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! Southern Literary Messenger - Page 3761856Full view - About this book
| 1842 - 612 pages
...swift keys! What loud lament and dismal Miserere Will mingle with the awful symphonies ! I hear e'en now the infinite fierce chorus, The cries of agony,...fills the world with terror, — Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and sports, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
| International peace society - 232 pages
...such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownost Nature's sweet arid kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies?...fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the buman mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
| Naval art and science - 1872 - 1120 pages
...magnanimously forgiven. THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. DECEMBER, 1872. THE GENEVA ARBITRATION. Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, 15 Thou drownest nature's sweet and kindly voices, And...fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, 20 There were no need of arsenals... | |
| 1844 - 784 pages
...Is it, oh man, with such discordant noise?, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drown est Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the...fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and court?, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
| Charles Sumner - Fourth of July orations - 1845 - 108 pages
...attractive of any in the poem, but which commend themselves by their intrinsic truth and moral force ; Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarreHt the celestial harmonies '. Were half the power, that...fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drowneet Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies 1 Were half the power, that fills the world with terror. Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
| Arbitration (International law) - 1873 - 398 pages
...mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleagured towns. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, (riven to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
| Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...musketry, the clashing blade, And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. It is, O man, with such discordant noises — With such accursed...fills the world with terror — Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts — Given to redeem the human mind from Error, There were no need of arsenals... | |
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