 | Recitations - 1877 - 448 pages
...cradles kissing babies that are asleep. Some are receiving the blessings of old men. Some are parting who hold them and press them to their hearts again...say nothing ; and some are talking with wives, and trying with brave words spoken in the old tones to drive from their hearts the awful fear. We see them... | |
 | Oliver Ernesto Branch - Readers - 1878 - 278 pages
...kissing babies that are asleep. Some are receiving tho blessings of old men. Some are parting v,-ho hold them and press them to their hearts again and again, and say nothing; and some are talking with A VISION OF THE PAST. 119 wives, and endeavoring with brave words spoken in the old tones to drive... | |
 | Allen Ayrault Griffith - Elocution - 1879 - 348 pages
...babies that are asleep. Some are receiving the blessings of old men. Some are parting with mothers who hold them and press them to their hearts again...hearts the awful fear. We see them part. We see the wii'e standing in the door, with the babe in her arms — standing in the sunlight sobbing — at the... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Funeral orations - 1881 - 172 pages
...babies that are asleep. Some are receiving the blessings of old men. Some are parting with mothers who hold them and press them to their hearts again...with brave words spoken in the old tones to drive away the awful fear. We see them part. We see the wife standing in the door with the babe in her arms... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Recitations, American - 1881 - 438 pages
...cradles kissing babies that are asleep. Some are receiving the blessings of old men. Some are parting who hold them and press them to their hearts again...say nothing ; and some are talking with wives, and trying with brave-words spoken in the old tones to drive from their hearts the awful fear. We see them... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Bible - 1883 - 210 pages
...babes that are asleep. Some are receiving the blessings. of old men. Some are parting with mothers who hold them and press them to their hearts again and again, and say nothing. Kisses and tears, tears and kisses — divine mingling of agony and love ! And some are talking with... | |
 | David W. Lusk - Illinois - 1884 - 600 pages
...babes that are asleep. Some are receiving the blessings of old men. Some are parting with mothers, who hold them, and press them to their hearts again and again, and say nothing. Kisses and tears, tears and kisses — divine mingling of agony and love. And some are talking with... | |
 | Elocution - 1885 - 332 pages
...kissing babes that are asleep. Some are receiving the blessings of old men. Some are parting with mothers who hold them and press them to their hearts again...with brave words spoken in the old tones to drive away the awful fear. We see them part. We see the wife standing in the door with the babe in her arms... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - American prose literature - 1888 - 344 pages
...kissing babes that are asleep. Some are receiving the blessings of old men. Some are parting with mothers who hold them and press them to their hearts again and again, and say nothing. Kisses and tears, tears and kisses — divine mingling of agony and love ! And some are talking with... | |
 | Byron Wesley King - Elocution - 1889 - 398 pages
...forever. Others are bendingoyer cradles, kissing babies that are asleep. Some are parting with mothers who hold them and press them to their hearts again...wives, and endeavoring, with brave words, spoken in old tones, to drive from their hearts the awful fear. We see them part ; we see the wife standing in... | |
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... the last time in quiet, woody places with the maidens they adore. We hear the whisperings and the sweet vows of eternal love as they lingeringly part forever. Others are bending over cradles kissing babes that are asleep. 
