 | American literature - 1885 - 980 pages
...South's noblest poets who has but just said : " I am a Southerner ; I love the South ; I dared for her To fight from Lookout to the sea, With her proud banner over me : But from my lips thanksgiving broke, As God in battle-thunder spoke, And that Black Idol, breedmg... | |
 | Jacob Hoke - Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 - 1887 - 644 pages
...breezes stray On Pensacola's drowsy bay? Not so ! I am a Southerner; I love the South ; I dared for her To fight from Lookout to the sea, With her proud banner over me ; But from my lips thanksgiving broke. As God in battle -thunder spoke, And that Black Idol, breeding... | |
 | Jacob Hoke - Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 - 1887 - 644 pages
...uttered by Mr. Maurice Thompson, a Southern man.* "I am a Southerner; I love the South; I dared for her To fight from Lookout to the sea, With her proud banner over me: But from my lips thanksgiving broke, As God in battle thunder spoke, And that Black Idol, breeding... | |
 | George Washington Cable - African Americans - 1889 - 240 pages
...South's noblest poets who has but just said : " I am a Southerner ; I love the South ; I dared for her To fight from Lookout to the sea, With her proud banner over me : But from my lips thanksgiving broke, As God in battle-thunder spoke, And that Black Idol, breeding... | |
 | Maurice Thompson - Ind - 1892 - 238 pages
...now, Or lay my face upon the ground ; I am a man, of men a peer, And not a cowering, cudgeled hound ! I stand and say that you were right, I greet you with uncovered head, Remembering many a thundering fight, Where whistling death between us sped. Remembering the boys in gray, With thoughts... | |
 | Maurice Thompson - Ind - 1892 - 240 pages
...breezes stray On Pensacola's drowsy bay ? Not so ! I am a Southerner ; I love the South ; I dared for her To fight from Lookout to the sea, With her proud banner over me : But from my lips thanksgiving broke, As God in battle thunder spoke, And that Black Idol, breeding... | |
 | DAVID STARR JORDAN - 1896 - 290 pages
...justification in the lines of Maurice Thomplon: —" I am a Southerner. I love the South. I dared for her To fight from Lookout to the Sea With her proud banner over me. But from my lips thanksgiving broke When God in battle thunder spoke, And that black idol, breeding... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - Education, Higher - 1896 - 290 pages
...justification in the lines of Maurice Thompson: — " I am a Southerner. I love the South. I dared for her To fight from Lookout to the Sea With her proud banner over me. But from my lips thanksgiving broke When God in battle thunder spoke. And that black idol, breeding... | |
 | William Malone Baskervill - American literature - 1897 - 422 pages
...to the great underlying cause of the strife : I am a Southerner; I love the South: I dared for her To fight from Lookout to the sea, With her proud banner over me: But from my lips thanksgiving broke, As God in battle thunder spoke, And that Black Idol, breeding... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - Cuban question - 1898 - 46 pages
...ago to-day that a rebel soldier who says— " I am a Southerner, I loved the South and dared for her To fight from Lookout to the sea With her proud banner...with uncovered head, Remembering many a thundrous fight, When whistling death between us sped; I clasp the hand that made my scars, I cheer the flag... | |
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God in battle -thunder spoke, And that Black Idol, breeding drouth And dearth of human sympathy Throughout the sweet and sensuous South, Was, with its chains and human yoke. Blown hellward from the cannon's mouth, While Freedom cheered behind the smoke... 
