 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...  Pamphlets: Education. English. 1810-1906] - Page 11835Full view - About this book
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...generous soul, but not subdue. Waddimgton. They never fall who die In a great cause ; the block may seek their gore, Their heads may sodden in the sun, their...doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts That overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom. — Byron. — Land of our fathers... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...sacrifice ascend to heaven And draw down freedom on her evermore. Cal. But if we fail /. Ber. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak...walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though yean Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thought! Which... | |
 | 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
...as it looked 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...others and conduct The world at last to freedom." GEORGE GORDON BYRON. The church as one of the conserving forces of the world has met gravest difficulties... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 390 pages
...to heaven 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...others, and conduct The world at last to freedom. What were we If Brutus had not lived ? He died in giving Rome liberty, but left a deathless lesson... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 392 pages
...to heaven And 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...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
...attempt the 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...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
...to heaven And 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...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.... | |
 | Norman Wentworth De Witt - 1923 - 232 pages
...throne but the prose and verse of Sir Walter Scott was a glorious substitute for victory. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak...castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. It was so with the Italic sentiment of the allies that swept over Italy in the youth of the poet's... | |
 | Walter Alwyn Briscoe - 1924 - 340 pages
...there an hour alone I dream'd that Greece might still be free. His own words are recalled : They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak...others, and conduct The world at last to Freedom. SHAKESPEARE AND BYRON BY PROFESSOR FRANK GRANGER, D.Litt., MA 1%TILTON perceived clearly one of the... | |
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