MEN ! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? x If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, — Slaves unworthy to be freed... Poems - Page 213by James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 279 pagesFull view - About this book
| Wells Hawks Skinner - English language - 1897 - 282 pages
...ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's...not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? * * * * * Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget... | |
| Mona Caird - Ethics - 1897 - 264 pages
...understand what liberty means. The true lover of freedom loves it for others as well as for himself. " If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's...not base slaves indeed ? Slaves unworthy to be freed ? " Now, our present marriage system is coercive. The marriage contract is the only contract which... | |
| Central Conference of American Rabbis - Jewish hymns - 1897 - 228 pages
...of fathers, brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are je truly free and brave ? If you do not feel the chain When it works a brother's pain,...not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake? And with heathen hearts forget That we... | |
| Arbitration (International law) - 1898 - 556 pages
...ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathes on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's...base slaves indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed ? They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From... | |
| United States - 1904 - 350 pages
...on individual effort. But he knew also the other half of this truth as embodied in the Golden Rule. If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's...Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freedt *Ode to France. 1848. NO! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And with... | |
| Ethical Religion Society - Sick - 1899 - 124 pages
...Come of fathers brave and free, — If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's...not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed ? They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak : They are slaves who will not choose... | |
| Hymns - 1900 - 444 pages
...ye Come of fathers, brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's...not base slaves, indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed ? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And with heathen hearts forget That... | |
| Quotations, American - 1901 - 458 pages
...ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's...base slaves indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed ? Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That... | |
| Ellsworth C. Phelps - 1901 - 250 pages
...ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's...base slaves, indeed— Slaves unworthy to be freed ? 3 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And with leathern hearts forget That... | |
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