 Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation he had led, With ashes on her head, Wept with the passion of an angry grief: Forgive me, if from present things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored...  Examination Papers: Moderations - Side 37av University of Oxford - 1879Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1901 - 960 sider
...•"Commemoration Ode" recited at Harvard, July 21, 1865, pays a matchless tribute to Lincoln which we quote : Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the nation...my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on hi's worldhonored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan,... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 520 sider
...American patriotism has offered no loftier tribute to Abraham Lincoln than the passage beginning : — Such was he, our Martyr-chief, Whom late the nation...head, • Wept with the passion of an angry grief. The strophes are of unequal merit, and sometimes overburdened with compressed thought. " It is no smooth-cut... | |
 | 1903 - 430 sider
...solid earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation...heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, For... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 358 sider
...earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. VI Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation...heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating... | |
 | 1904 - 696 sider
...solid earth, Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, Fed from within with all the strength he needs. Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation...me, if from present things I turn To speak what in iny heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote,... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1904 - 312 sider
...say to all the world, " This was a man." — Sliiilceapenre ODE RECITED AT THE HARVARD COMMEMORATION Such was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation he had led, With ashes on her head, Wept with a passion of an angry grief : Forgive me, if from the present things 1 turn To speak what in my heart... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 sider
...thought and expression is his greatest achievement. [The following are the lines on Abraham Lincoln.] SUCH was he, our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation he had led, With ashes on her head, Wept with a passion of an angry grief : Forgive me, if from present things I turn To speak what in my heart will... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1904 - 380 sider
...Grant, but the thought of Lincoln lifts him at once to a higher plane : — Such was he our martyr chief Whom late the Nation he had led, With ashes on her head, Forgive me if from present things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my... | |
 | Augustus White Long - 1905 - 382 sider
...lips thet quivered, An' bring fair wages for brave men, A nation saved, a race delivered ! LINCOLN SUCH was he. our Martyr-Chief, Whom late the Nation...heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, 5... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1905 - 312 sider
...College to the memory of those of its students "who fellin the war which kept the country "whole. QUCH was he, our Martyr-Chief, ^ Whom late the Nation he...heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating... | |
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