 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
 | Ethics - 1905 - 352 pages
...scoffingand a - buse. —| N 1— I 1 N- II — 1 — d— fpl— ] — j— *— q-*-2r* n<t±=t=f3i If ye do not feel the chain When it works a broth-er's pain, No ! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers bear, Rath-er than in silence shrink From... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - American literature - 1905 - 738 pages
...indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed ? Women ! who shall one day bear Sons to breathe New England air, ю If ye hear, without a blush, Deeds to make the roused blood nub Like red lava through your veins, For your sisters now in chains, — Answer ! are ye fit to be... | |
 | 1906 - 140 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 Women ! who shall one day bear Sons to breathe our English air ; If ye hear, without a blush, Deeds... | |
 | Alice B. Macdonald - English language - 1911 - 630 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 pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthv to be freed? Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern... | |
 | John Merrin - Great Britain - 1915 - 300 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 ? No ! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - Justice - 1915 - 978 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 That... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If ye do not feel the chain, 6 When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? Women I who shall one day bear 10 Sons to breathe New England air, If ye hear, without a blush, Deeds to... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - American poetry - 1916 - 242 pages
...ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave Are you 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 ? If ye hear without a blush Deeds to make the roused blood rush Like red lava through your veins For... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - Literary Criticism - 1916 - 522 pages
...natural field of action. His first remonstrance against slavery is found in his " Stanzas on Freedom ": When it works a brother's pain, Are ye 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... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Readers - 1918 - 200 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 That... | |
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