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... thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea ! O beautiful for pilgrim feet , Whose stern , impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness ! America ! America ! God mend thine every flaw ...
... thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea ! O beautiful for pilgrim feet , Whose stern , impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness ! America ! America ! God mend thine every flaw ...
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... thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea ! WHAT IS IT TO BE AN AMERICAN ? BY HENRY CABOT LODGE WHAT is it to be an American ? Putting aside all the outer shows of dress and manners , social customs and physical ...
... thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea ! WHAT IS IT TO BE AN AMERICAN ? BY HENRY CABOT LODGE WHAT is it to be an American ? Putting aside all the outer shows of dress and manners , social customs and physical ...
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... those heroes dare To die , and leave their children free , Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee . WARREN'S ADDRESS AT BUNKER HILL BY JOHN PIERPONT STAND ! 20 READINGS IN LITERATURE Ralph Waldo Emerson.
... those heroes dare To die , and leave their children free , Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee . WARREN'S ADDRESS AT BUNKER HILL BY JOHN PIERPONT STAND ! 20 READINGS IN LITERATURE Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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... thee , Bearing the standard of Liberty's van ? Think not the God of thy fathers shall fail thee , Striving with men for the birthright of man ! Yet , if by madness and treachery blighted , Dawns the dark hour when the sword thou must ...
... thee , Bearing the standard of Liberty's van ? Think not the God of thy fathers shall fail thee , Striving with men for the birthright of man ! Yet , if by madness and treachery blighted , Dawns the dark hour when the sword thou must ...
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... Thee always , through shadow and sun ! Thou hast united us , who shall divide us ? Keep us , oh , keep us the MANY IN ONE ! Up with our banner bright , Sprinkled with starry light , Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore , While ...
... Thee always , through shadow and sun ! Thou hast united us , who shall divide us ? Keep us , oh , keep us the MANY IN ONE ! Up with our banner bright , Sprinkled with starry light , Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore , While ...
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Page 48 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government...
Page 43 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 364 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 357 - Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust, (Since He who knows our need is just,) That somehow, somewhere, meet we must.
Page 26 - Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 142 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth, "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more...
Page 42 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure We are met on a great battle-field of that war We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 152 - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord. For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Page 146 - This was the truest warrior That ever buckled sword, This the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word; And never earth's philosopher Traced with his golden pen, On the deathless page, truths half so sage As he wrote down for men.
Page 252 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.