They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think ; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two... Poems - Page 214by James Russell Lowell - 1844 - 279 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...3122, SLAVES. THEY are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, SLEEP 604 SLEEP Rather 3123. SLEEP. Benefits of SLEEP that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life,... | |
| Free thought - 1877 - 604 pages
...For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. — James Mussell Lowell. 189 TO TYRANTS. Go, still the heaving ocean's roar, Go chain the viewless... | |
| Leon Dande - Slavery - 1877 - 864 pages
...' In the language of Lowell, — "They arc slaves, who dare not speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves, who dare not be In the right, with two or three." "According to the Governer of Massachusetts, Mr. Everett, we have committed an indictable offence this... | |
| Free thought - 1877 - 600 pages
...For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They arc slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. — James Russell Lowell. 189 TO TYRANTS.... | |
| Missions - 1879 - 556 pages
...For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three." God grant us all this bravery to speak the truth and seek it too, to follow our sacred convictions... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1880 - 932 pages
...For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. Slaves they might be, but in those days to be in the right with two or three meant to be assaulted... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. COLUMBUS. THE cordage creaks and rattles in the wind, With freaks of sudden hush ; the reeling sea... | |
| John Morrison Davidson - Great Britain - 1880 - 274 pages
...of nobility, and that no sovereign can either confer or take away. XI. THE HON. AUBERON HERBERT. " They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three." WHEN a patrician like the Hon. Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert comes to figure as a strenuous... | |
| Choice literature - 1880 - 432 pages
...ir the fallen and the weak ; They nre slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Kather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think ; They are slave* who dare not he In the ripht with two or three. Slaves they might be, but in those days to be... | |
| James Abram Garfield - United States - 1881 - 354 pages
...For the fallen and the weak. They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing- and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth, they needs...slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake. And with leathern hearts forget That we... | |
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