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
| Henry Ward Beecher - Bible - 1856 - 934 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...ye not base slaves, indeed — Slaves unworthy to bo freed ? 2. Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And with leathern hearts... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - Congregational churches - 1856 - 506 pages
...Como of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If yo do not feel the chain When it works a brother's pain, Are yo not base slaves, indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed ? 2. Is true freedom but to break Fetters... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...70 Come of fathers brave and free. If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye trnly free and brave ! If ye do not feel the chain. When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not hase slaves indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed ? Women ! who shall one day bear Sons to breathe... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - Hymns, English - 1859 - 532 pages
...ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and bravs ? If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves, indeed — Slaves uuworthy to be freed ? Z. Is truo freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And with leathern... | |
| Ellen Courtauld - 1860 - 488 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 leathern hearts forget That... | |
| American Unitarian Association - Unitarian churches - 1861 - 600 pages
...is that 3-0 Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly brave ? If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Unworthy to be freed ? They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 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...unworthy to be freed ? Women ! who shall one day bear SODS to breathe New England air, If ye hear, without a blush, Deeds to make the roused blood rush Like... | |
| G. S. Stevens - Hymns, English - 1860 - 402 pages
...ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave 'i If ye do not feel the chain When it works a brother's...base slaves, indeed—- Slaves unworthy to be freed ? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And with leathern hearts forget That... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...ye Come of'fathers brave and free, If there breathe 011 earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's...slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed ? Women 1 who shall one day bear Sons to breathe New England air, If ye hear, without a blush, Deeds to make... | |
| Samuel Longfellow, Samuel Johnson - Hymns, English - 1865 - 540 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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