 | Massachusetts. Governor - 1861 - 566 pages
...character, their service, their fate, their glory, they * cannot fail : — " They never fail who die In a great cause ; the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the Bun, their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls; But still their spirit walks abroad. Though... | |
 | Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) - 1862 - 1020 pages
...fail ; — "They never fail who die In a great cause ; the block may soak their gore ; Their beads may sodden in the sun, their limbs Be strung to city...sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to FREEDOM." The edict of Nantes maintaining the religious liberty of the Huguenots... | |
 | Samuel Claggett Chew - 1915 - 206 pages
...the higher loyalty, and submission to that call brings with it its reward. "They never fail who die In a great cause: the block may soak their gore; Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs very apt. Cf. therefore: "The desolation piled upon me, when I stood alone upon my hearth, with my... | |
 | 1919 - 424 pages
...into the immortality of democracy, for "they never fail who die in a great cause." Our heroic dead "but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts which overpower all others, and conduct the world at last to freedom." HERE'S TO DUNWOODY. In a recent poem Kipling says. "For the game is... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1917 - 324 pages
...They are safe. Failure is impossible to them, for " They never fail who die In a great cause. . . . But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years...They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which o'erpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom." It seems to me that all those men... | |
 | William Chalmers Covert - 1920 - 208 pages
...back upon the eras of struggle and generations of courageous martyrs that "They never fail who die In a great cause. The block may soak their gore; Their...sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others and conduct The world at last to freedom." GEORGE GORDON BYRON. The church as one of the conserving forces of the... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 390 pages
...And draw down freedom on her evermore. Calendaro. But if we fail /. Bertucdo. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ;...sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom. What were we If Brutus had not lived ? He died in giving Rome liberty,... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 392 pages
...draw down freedom on her evermore. Calendaro. But if we fail /. Bertuccio. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ;...to city gates and castle walls — But still their spint walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver - 1922 - 424 pages
...Future's portal With the past's blood-rusted key." (G) JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. "They never fail who die in a great cause; the block may soak their gore; Their...heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs Be strung to city-gates and castle walls; But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share... | |
 | John Morley - 1923 - 450 pages
...draw down freedom on her evermore. Oalendaro. But if we fail /. Bertuccio. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ;...and others share as dark a doom, They but augment tho deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.... | |
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They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark... 
