| Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1877 - 894 pages
...memories. We plant above their graves the willow and the laurel, and we feel that blood like this " For liberty shed so holy is It would not stain the...on this earthly sphere A boon, an offering Heaven helds dear, 'Tia the last libation liberty draws From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause."... | |
| Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1878 - 704 pages
...of Paradise with the last drop of blood shed by the last defender of his country's liberties : — Oh, if there be on this earthly sphere, A boon, an...From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause. Hafed, the hero of the Fire-worshippers, is a rebel against Mussulman rule. Hinda, the daughter of... | |
| Thomas Moore, John Francis Waller - Irish poetry - 1879 - 572 pages
...Gates of Light. Though foul are the drops that oft distil On the field of warfare, blood Like this, For Liberty shed, so holy is, It would not stain the...there be on this earthly sphere A boon, an offering Heav'n holds dear, 'Tis the last libation Liberty draws From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her... | |
| Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1879 - 786 pages
...of Paradise with the last drop of blood shed by the last defender of his country's liberties : — Oh, if there be on this earthly sphere, A boon, an...From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause. Hafed, the hero of the Fire- worshippers, is a rebel against Mussulman rule. Hinda, the daughter of... | |
| David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...Gates of Light ! Though foul are the drops that oft distil on the field of warfare, blood like this for Liberty shed, so holy is, it would not stain the purest rill that sparkles among the flowers of bliss ! Oh ! if there be, on this earthly sphere, a boon, an offering, Heaven holds dear,... | |
| Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...Gates of Light : Though foul are the drops that oft distil On the field of warfare, blood like this, For Liberty shed, so holy is, It would not stain the...From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause !" Moore wrote those undying lines, the Canadian Boat-Song, during his passage of the St. Lawrence,... | |
| American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. CVII. —Sir Isaac Neiuton. AND oh! if there be, on this earthly sphere, A boon, an...From the heart that bleeds, and breaks in her cause! — Thomas Moore: "Lalla Rookh" cvin. THE processes of science are necessarily slow, but they are sure.... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1880 - 648 pages
...Gates of Light. Though foul are the drops that oft distil On the field of warfare, blood like this, For Liberty shed, so holy is, It would not stain the...purest rill That sparkles among the Bowers of Bliss I Oh if there be, on this earthly sphere, A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear, 'Tis the last libation... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...from its baso Than foree the yoke of slavery upon men Detcrmin'd to be free. Southey, Joan of Are. Oh ! if there be, on this earthly sphere, A boon,...From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause ; Moore, Laila Rookh. There is a world, where souls are free, Where tyrants taint not nature's bliss,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 pages
...the drops that oft distil On the field of warfare, blood like this, For liberty shed, so holy is,1 It would not stain the purest rill, That sparkles among the bowers of bliss! Oh ! if there bo, on this earthly sphere, A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear, 'Ti$ the hist libation Liberty draws... | |
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