 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; 10 That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When like our sires our sons are gone. Spirit! who made those freemen dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid time and nature... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1850 - 388 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
 | Authors, American - 1853 - 516 pages
...stream that scawnnl creeps. " On this green bank, by this soft stream, We sec to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons nre gone. " Spirit that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone, That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - Fourth of July orations - 1875 - 196 pages
...constructed to give access to the spot ' Where once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world ;' and thus enable future visitors...their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.' " To properly carry out this plan, the town or its citizens may be called upon to provide... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 714 pages
...stream that seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made these heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
 | Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 558 pages
...ttream which seaward creeps. On the green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone ; That memory may their deed redeem When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit that made those heroes dare To die and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature... | |
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The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem,... 
