 | American periodicals - 1900
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894
...prophecy, Tempered the heap with touch of mortal tears; Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | Republican Club of the City of New York - 1900
...for centuries. A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | 1900
...for centuries. A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | California - 1900
...superbly poetical lines expressing the characteristics of the great captain in nature- terms:— " The color of the ground was In him, the red earth; The tang and odor of the primal things; The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - Evolution - 1902 - 162 pages
...gathered up as it were into the great President, the great man of the people, to make him what he was : " The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; The tang and color of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks ; The gladness of the... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - American poetry - 1902 - 686 pages
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth, The tang and odor of the primal things, The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1902 - 687 pages
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth, The tang and odor of the primal things, The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the wind... | |
 | United States - 1902
...Earth, Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy; Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff. ****** The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks; The gladness of the... | |
 | James Young - Canada - 1902 - 406 pages
...grandly voiced in the following lines from "Lincoln, and Other Poems" (1901), by Edwin Markham : " The color of the ground was in him, the red earth ; The tang and odor of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks ; The gladness of the... | |
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The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; The smack and tang of elemental things... 
