 | James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 530 pages
...veins, For your sisters now in chains, — Answer ! are ye fit to be Mothers of the brave and free ? Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free I They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose... | |
 | Melancthon Woolsey Stryker - 1896 - 200 pages
...service is tonight begun; for, " Is true freedom but to break Fetters for own dear sake, And with leaden hearts forget That we owe mankind a debt ? No ! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers bear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free." Pale and poor are all these words... | |
 | Melancthon Woolsey Stryker - 1896 - 200 pages
...forget That we owe mankind a debt J No ! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers bear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free." Pale and poor are all these words of mine: but great and lustrous is the text. Gladly I would disappear... | |
 | Central Conference of American Rabbis, Society of American Cantors - Hymns, English - 1897 - 232 pages
...unworthy to be freed? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake? And with heathen hearts forget That we owe mankind a debt ? No ! true...heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free. 3 They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the meek ; They are slaves, who will not choose... | |
 | Central Conference of American Rabbis - Jewish hymns - 1897 - 228 pages
...chain When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake? And with heathen hearts forget That we owe mankind a debt ? No ! true freedom is to share All the chains our... | |
 | Utah. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1898 - 988 pages
...founded for the many, not merely for a lew, and 110 class should have a monopoly of Its blessings. Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free. This was written for the black man; but why not apply it to the white woman, and the black woman? [Applause]... | |
 | Sidney A. Witherbee - History - 1898 - 996 pages
...recite in school. I suggested a verse or two from Lowell's "Stanzas on Freedom," particularly the third: Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free! To this I ventured at the same time to add the following: Listen then to Cuba's plea, There our brothers... | |
 | United States - 1904 - 350 pages
...a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freedt *Ode to France. 1848. NO! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers...heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free.* The Man with the Hoe, Lowell would agree with Mr. Markham, is what he is, largely because state and... | |
 | George W. MOREHOUSE - Cosmology - 1898 - 284 pages
...EVOLUTION OF MIND, 2 I/ XVII. THE END OF THE PLANET, 218 XVIII. A VISION OF PEACE, - 226 TRUE FREEDOM. "Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, find, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt ? No J true freedom is to share fill... | |
 | Ethical Religion Society - Sick - 1899 - 124 pages
...From the truth they needs must think : They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free. Jus. Russell Lowell. A LITTLE child, in bulrush ark, Came floating on the Nile's broad water ; That... | |
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Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No ! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free. 
