 America ! half-brother of the world ! With something good and bad of every land ; Greater than thee have lost their seat — Greater scarce none can stand. Thy flag now flouts the skies, The highest under Heaven ; Save the red cross, whereto are given...  Festus: A Poem - Page 110by Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Philip James Bailey - English literature - 1845 - 428 pages
...On the world's-end-land! Over the hills Away we go! Through fire, and snow, And rivers, whereto Al l others are rills. FESTUS. Through the lands of silver,...Save the red cross, whereto are given All victories. LUCIFER. Our horses snort and snuff the sea, And pant for where we ought to be. FESTUS. Well, here... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 430 pages
...lands untold. LucTFEit. By strait and bay We must away ; Through swamp, and plain, And hurricane ; From Freedom's skies. America ! half-brother of the...Save the red cross, whereto are given All victories. LUCIFER. Our horses snort and snuff the sea, And pant for where we ought to be. FESTUS. Well, here... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1846 - 472 pages
...by fearful Certainty ! AMERICA, POLITICAL AND LITERARY. BY JOHN BALL BRIBBIN, 8CHUYLER8VILLE, NY " America ! half-brother of the world ! With something...of every land ; Greater than thee have lost their scat — Greater scarce none can stand." — FESTCS. AMERICA is great in the extent of her territory... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1847 - 426 pages
...sublime like lightnings in repose — Till roused, anon, afar its flaming spray it throws. LUCIFER. There ! now we stand On the world's-end-land! Over...Save the red cross, whereto are given All victories. LUCIFER. Our horses snort and snuff the sea, And pant for where we ought to be. FESTUS. Well, here... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1849 - 430 pages
...sublime like lightnings in repose — Till roused, anon, afar its flaming spray it throws. LUCIFER. There ! now we stand On the world's-end-land ! Over...Save the red cross, whereto are given All victories. LUCIFER. Our horses snort and snuff the sea, And pant for where we ought to be. FESTUS. Well, here... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - English poetry - 1853 - 704 pages
...roused anon, afar its flaming spray it throws. LUCIFER. There ! now we stand On the world' s-end land ! Over the hills Away we go ! Through fire, and snow,...Save the red cross, whereto are given All victories. LUCIFER. Our horses snort and snuff the sea, And pant for where we ought to be. FESTUS. Well, here... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...oeean add, One tpi rit to the souls our fathers had, One fi eeman moro Ameriea, to thee ! Ameriea ! half-brother of the World ! With something good and...Greater than thee have lost their seat— Greater searee none ean stand. Baityt Fesha. Land of the West ! though passing brief The reeord of thine age,... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - English poetry - 1862 - 406 pages
...Through the lands of silrer, The lands of gold; Through lands untrodden, And lands untold. LUCIFEB. By strait and bay We must away; Through swamp, and...Save the red cross, whereto are given All victories. FESTUS. Well, here we are ! and as we flew in, I said, let Darkness follow Ruin! LUCIFER. Our horses... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...and dreary the flight, That but wanders to ruin and wantons to blight ! Moore. America ! half brother of the world ! With something good and bad of every...lost their seat — Greater scarce none can stand. Bailey, Feslui. Columbia, child of Britain, — noblest child ; I praise the glowing lustre of thy... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1877 - 748 pages
...now ; as yet, enough to view Earth's outward. Lucifer. So then, hence ! Feftus. Adieu America, thou, half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land ; ( *reater than thee have lost their seat ; Greater scarce none can *tand. Lucifer. Just touch the... | |
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