 I sweep them for a paean, but they wane Again and yet again Into a dirge, and die away in pain. In these brave ranks I only see the gaps, Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb turf wraps, Dark to the triumph which they died to gain : Fitlier may others...  The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 401by James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 550 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 518 pages
...brave ranks I only see the gaps, Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb turf wraps, Dark to the triumph which they died to gain : Fitlier may others greet...Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave ; No ban of endless night exiles the brave ; And to the saner mind We rather seem the dead that stayed behind.... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 850 pages
...brave ranks I only see the gaps, Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb tnrf wraps, Dark to the triumph which they died to gain. Fitlier may others greet...dead, Who went, and who return not. — Say not so ! 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way. Virtue treads... | |
 | 1868 - 874 pages
...brave ranks I only see the gaps, Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb turf wraps, Dark to the triumph which they died to gain. Fitlier may others greet...dead, Who went, and who return not. — Say not so ! 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way. Virtue treads... | |
 | 1868 - 556 pages
...the gaps, Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb turf wraps, Dark to the triumph which they died to gam. Fitlier may others greet the living, For me the past...dead, Who went, and who return not. — Say not so ! 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way. Virtue treads... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 312 pages
...brave ranks I only see the gaps, Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb turf wraps, Dark to the triumph which they died to gain: Fitlier may others greet...dead, Who went, and who return not. — Say not so I 'T is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way; Virtue... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1869 - 212 pages
...brave ranks I only see the gaps, Thinking of dear ones whom the dumb turf wraps, Dark to the triumph which they died to gain. Fitlier may others greet...head Salute the sacred dead, Who went, and who return not.—Say not so ! 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by... | |
 | Great Britain - 1869 - 974 pages
...because we write for the living as well as of the dead — for the living, to prove that — " 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way ¡" and of the dead, so as to excite with the reader's sympathetic spirit •ubstantial evidence that... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - 1870 - 408 pages
...AND THE " SABBATH QUESTION." — DEGREE OF BD — DR. LEE AS A PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM. " "I' is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way." JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. As soon as the Assembly was over, Dr. Lee turned with that buoyant power of self-recovery,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...with my strain, But the sad strings complain, And will not please the ear; I sweep them for a pa;an, but they wane Again and yet again Into a dirge, and...dead, Who went, and who return not. — Say not so ! 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way ; Virtue... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...dumb turf wraps, Dark to the trinmph which they died Fitlier may others greet the living, to gain: For me the past is unforgiving; I with uncovered head...dead, Who went, and who return not . — Say not so! 'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, But the high faith that failed not by the way; Virtue treads... | |
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