 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!  Orations from Homer to William McKinley - Page 10299edited by - 1902 - 11114 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts."... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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 cease ; And... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...harmonies ? 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 for arsenals nor forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 452 pages
...harmonies ? 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,...no need of Arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred 1 And every nation that should lift again Its hand against its brother, on... | |
 | 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, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts... | |
 | 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— Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts— Given to redeem the mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts."... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...blindness, Melting all spirits earthly into one, And leaving holiness and joy — 'TIS KINDNESS. DK LEE. 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 nor forts.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarres t the celestial harmonies Î 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 nor forts... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...half tbe power that fllln the world with term. Were half the wealth, bestow'd on campi and court*, Given to redeem the human mind from error. There were no need of arflenala nor forUI The wBrnor's name would be a name abhorred I And every naUon Mi.it utiould hf!... | |
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