 Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?  The travellers - Page 215by Tertius T C. Kendrick - 1825Full view - About this book
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth 1 render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae 1 What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1838 - 1380 pages
...was delivering this strong appeal, that the quotation might not unnaturally have occurred to him, " Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae." He did not see, that there was anything unmanly in not struggling for a principle which was at present... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd? Must me but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...hlush — for Greece a tear. Must roe but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must me but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopyla ! What, silent still? and silent alV? Ah! no; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...blush — for Greece a tear. Must me but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae. What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed? Must we but blush?—Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae. What! silent still ? and silent all ? Ah! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? ***** Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...hundred — grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What . silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no : — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our FATHERS BLED. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - Greece - 1845 - 510 pages
...Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ?— Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...hundred grant but three,' To make a new Thermopylae ? What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ;— the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...Greece — a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush ?— Our fathers bind. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ? Of the tbree hundred grant but tbree, To make a new Thermopylae ! What ! silent still,— and silent all !... | |
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