 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...  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 366by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Horatio Balch Hackett - 1864 - 284 pages
...honor, and shall give added potency to the voice which speaks from his grave. " They never fail who die In a great cause ; the block may soak their gore ;...heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to the city gates and castle walls, But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse and others... | |
 | Horatio Balch Hackett - 1864 - 276 pages
...honor, and shall give added potency to the voice which speaks from his grave. " They never fail who die In a great cause ; the block may soak their gore ;...heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to the city gates and easflo walls, But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse and others... | |
 | 1864 - 568 pages
...die In a grout cause ; the block may soak tlieir gore; Their heads nmy sodden in the sun, their limba Be strung to city gates and castle walls: But still...their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and other* share as dark a doom. They but augment the deep and sweeping thought* Which overpower all others,... | |
 | 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... | |
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