| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...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...hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...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 Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Should wear for evermore the curse of Cain. Longfellow. They tell thee in their dreaming school Of... | |
| Scotland Church of - 1855 - 392 pages
...still small voice of assurance so beautifully embodied in the following lines of Longfellow ? — " Down the dark future, through long generations, The...echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease, And like a bell, with solemn sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say peace. " Peace! and no... | |
| Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1853 - 792 pages
...and the inhabitants of the earth. Thus " shall the voice of the battle be forever distant." Thus, " Down the dark future, through long generations, The...echoing sounds grow fainter, and then cease ; And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, ' Peace ! ' " Peace... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1891 - 900 pages
...its fulfillment ; a vision thus expressed in those memorable lines in "The Arsenal at Springfield : "Down the dark future, through long generations, The...echoing sounds grow fainter, and then cease, And like a bell, with solemn sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say Peace. — Peace, and... | |
| American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of Arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against its brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through... | |
| Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...the human mind from error, There were no need of Arsenals and forts. V The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against its brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 396 pages
...from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts ; The warrior's name would be a name abhorr'd, And every nation that should lift again Its hand against...Cain. Down the dark future, through long generations, War's echoing sounds grow fainter, and they cease Like to a bell, with solemn sweet vibrations : I... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 396 pages
...from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts ; The warrior's name would be a name abhorr'd, And every nation that should lift again Its hand against...Cain. Down the dark future, through long generations, War's echoing sounds grow fainter, and they cease Like to a bell, with solemn sweet vibrations : I... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 404 pages
...from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts ; The warrior's name would be a name abhorr'd, And every nation that should lift again Its hand against...Cain. Down the dark future, through long generations, War's echoing sounds grow fainter, and they cease Likp to a bell, with solemn sweet vibrations : I... | |
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