 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1902 - 782 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 - 708 pages
...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 - 440 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... | |
 | Mrs. Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggins, Nora Archibald Smith - American poetry - 1916 - 784 pages
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains asd 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... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1903 - 84 pages
...original ode entitled "Abraham Lincoln, the Great Commoner," from which the following is an extract: 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... | |
 | S. D. Waterman, J. W. McClymonds, C. C. Hughes - Children's poetry - 1903 - 200 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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1903 - 170 pages
...against the world, A man to match our mountains, and compel 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 Teachers Association - 1911 - 600 pages
...the serious stuff. Into the shape she breathed a flame of light That tender, tragic, ever changing face, Here was a man to hold against the world, A...patience of the cliff; The good-will of the rain that falls for all; The friendly welcome of the wayside well. The courage of the bird that dares the sea.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 454 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... | |
 | David George Downey - American poetry - 1906 - 230 pages
...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... | |
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The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; The smack and tang of elemental things... 
