 | 1928 - 480 pages
...could have been written of Mark Keppel as they were of Lincoln, for he, too, was a "man of the people": "The color of the ground was in him, the red earth,...dares the sea; The justice of the rain that loves all leaves ; The pity of the snow that hides all scars; The loving kindness of the wayside well;" Perhaps... | |
 | Clark Bell - 1911 - 264 pages
...ever-changing face. Here was a man to hold against the world, A man to match the mountains and the sea. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth ; The smack and tang of elemental things : The rectitude and patience of the cliff; The good-will of the... | |
 | 1900 - 848 pages
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth,...dares the sea; The justice of the rain that loves all leaves; The pity of the snow that hides all scars; The loving kindness of the wayside well; The... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 432 pages
...of earth, Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy, Tempered the heap with touch of mortal tears; Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff. The...dares the sea ; The justice of the rain that loves all leaves; The pity of the snow that hides all scars ; The loving kindness of the wayside well; The... | |
 | 1900 - 76 pages
...for centuries. A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth,...dares the sea; The justice of the rain that loves all leaves; The pity of the snow that hides all scars; The loving kindness of the wayside well; The... | |
 | Republican Club of the City of New York - 1900 - 76 pages
...for centuries. A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red earth,...dares the sea; The justice of the rain that loves all leaves; The pity of the snow that hides all scars; The loving kindness of the wayside well: The... | |
 | 1900 - 616 pages
...superbly poetical lines expressing the characteristics of the great captain in nature- terms:— " The color of the ground was In him, the red earth;...dares the sea; The justice of the rain that loves all leaves; The pity of the snow that hides all scars; The loving-kindness of the wayside well; The... | |
 | Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton, Charles Edward Doble, James Sutherland Cotton, Charles Lewis Hind, William Teignmouth Shore, Alfred Bruce Douglas, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - 1900 - 578 pages
...the Great Commoner," it was read by the author at the Eepublican Club dinner in New York : The colour of the ground was in him, the red Earth, The tang and odour of the primal things — The rectitude and patience of the rocks ; The gladness of the wind that... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - 1902 - 782 pages
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth,...dares the sea; The justice of the rain that loves all leaves; The pity of the snow that hides all scars ; [319J New The loving kindness of the wayside... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - 1902 - 772 pages
...for centuries, A man that matched the mountains and compelled The stars to look our way and honor us. The color of the ground was in him, the red Earth,...dares the sea; The justice of the rain that loves all leaves; The pity of the snow that hides all scars ; [319] New The loving kindness of the wayside... | |
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The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; The smack and tang of elemental things... 
