 | California - 1928 - 480 pages
...could have been written of Mark Keppel as they were of Lincoln, for he, too, was a "man of the people": "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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1900 - 848 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... | |
 | United States - 1909 - 632 pages
...with the serious stuff. Into the shape she breathed a flame to light That tender, tragic, everchanglng face. Here was a man to hold against the world, A man to match our peaks and plains and seas. The color of the ground was In blm; the red earth: The smack and tang... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | Education - 1915 - 220 pages
...took the tried clay of the common road — Clay warm yet with the genial heat of Earth, Dashed thru it all a strain of prophecy: Tempered the heap with...was a man to hold against the world, A man to match our peaks and plains and seas. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth. The smack and tang... | |
 | Republican Club of the City of New York - 1900 - 76 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... | |
 | 1900 - 76 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... | |
 | California - 1900 - 616 pages
...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 - 184 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, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1902 - 772 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... | |
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