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 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1897 - 580 pages
...some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait. Safe in himself as in a fate. So always...simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Gieat captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes... | |
 | American Historical Association - Historiography - 1897 - 1328 pages
...Illinois, who became the most illustrious of our Presidents since the first, of whom Lowell nobly wrote: "Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...judgment for the hour: But at last silence comes; then all arc gone, And .standing like a tower; Our children shall behold his fame — The- kindly,... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1897 - 1328 pages
...Illinois, who became the most illustrious of our Presidents since the first, of whom Lowell nobly wrote: '•'Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour: But ut last silence comes; theii all are ^roue, And standing like a tower; Our children shall bohold his... | |
 | Charles Noble - American literature - 1898 - 460 pages
...Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. ******* He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, 25 Till the wise years decide. ****** These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1899 - 638 pages
...And'some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate. So always...Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence conies ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1899 - 686 pages
...some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate. So always...decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, 201 Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 106 pages
...some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate. So always...knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patisnt in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and... | |
 | Self-culture - 1899 - 880 pages
...Cooke, and Sarah Orne Jewett. ELLEN A. VINTON. WASHINGTON, DC CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT IMPERILLED " GREAT captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes. » — Lowell. THE silence has come in which but the echoes of the guns and drums of our great captains... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Flags - 1900 - 508 pages
...some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the present gives, and cannot wait. Safe in himself as in a fate. So always,...judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes. These are all gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 954 pages
...some intuitive weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate. So always...guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient,... | |
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