| John Cumming - 1854 - 410 páginas
...from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts ; The warrior's name would be a name abhorr'd, And every nation that should lift again Its hand against...forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain. Down the dark future, through long^generations, War's echoing sounds grow fainter, and they cease Like... | |
| 1854 - 590 páginas
...proclaim iu the ears of all the people — " Were half the power that fills tho world with terrorWere half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given...human mind from error. There were no need of arsenals or forts." And bad as things now appear, we may bclievingly hope that the time is rapidly approaching,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 578 páginas
...the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such aecursed instruments as these, Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down tho dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter, and then cease !... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 páginas
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter, and then cease ;... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 páginas
...celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bcstow'd on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind...forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 páginas
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And j arrest the celestial harmonies? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease ;... | |
| James Booth - 1856 - 212 páginas
...remember that the march of civilization has more than once been stayed and turned back. They know, " Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts." Let us, too, humbly hope that we shall not be fated to afford another verification of the maxim of... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 páginas
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror,...redeem the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 páginas
...instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies 1 Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease ;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 páginas
...the human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would bo a name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift...forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease ;... | |
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