 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bcstow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...tne power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestow'd on eamps and eourts, iifven to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts ! Peaee seem'd to reign upon earth, and the restless heart of the oeean Was for a moment... | |
 | James Booth - Education - 1856 - 212 pages
...remember that the march of civilization has more than once been stayed and turned back. They know, " Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts." Let us, too, humbly hope that we shall not be fated to afford another verification of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred...hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Association (England) - Religion and culture - 1856 - 456 pages
...instruments as theie, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jurrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power that fills the world with terror — Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and sports, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. Down the... | |
 | D. W. Clark - 1856 - 450 pages
...Were half the power that fills the world with terrorWere half the wealth bestowed on camps and sports, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter, and then... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies 1 Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - 1857 - 356 pages
...musketry, the clashing blade, And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Were half the power that fills the world with terror—...bestowed on camps and courts— Given to redeem the mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts." On the 7th of September the weather was... | |
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Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! 
