 Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient,...  Abraham Lincoln, the Boy and the Man - Page 377by James Morgan - 1908 - 435 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1871 - 798 pages
...read by one of the noblest and most sorely tried of men, a hero comparable with any of Plutarch's, "The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious,...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." Dear old Thackeray ! — as everybody that knew him intimately calls him, now he is gone. That is his... | |
 | American essays - 1872 - 810 pages
...faith sublime, Till tne wise years decide. Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." FRENCH AND GERMAN.* Bv far the cleverest and most entertaining book that we have to notice this month... | |
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kiudly-eurncst, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...tune, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums Disturb our...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb...like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - America - 1868 - 300 pages
...time. And can his fame abide. Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American." l I have still, however, several countries to speak of tonight, and must break off attempting them.... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1869 - 524 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American. Such poetry as this makes one wish that somehow the customs of the republic could have devolved the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 312 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb...and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold bis fame, The kindly-earnest, bravo, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. ons of former years ; And shadows of things that have long since fled Flit over the brain, like t conies ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest,... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. T blanio, New birth of our new soil, the first American. JÄHES RUSSELL LOWELL. S 714 715 BURIAL OF LINCOLN.... | |
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