 | United States. 66th Congress, 3d session, 1920-1921 - 1922 - 118 pages
...constitutes one of the pillars upon which his popularity will rest. Again I say he was a man's man. 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 rain... | |
 | Adelaide Patterson - 1922 - 180 pages
...the mortal veil. 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... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1922 - 424 pages
...the mortal vail. 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 rain... | |
 | Oregon. Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction - 1916 - 36 pages
...original ode, entitled "Abraham Lincoln, the Great Commoner," from which the following is an extract.) 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... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...the mortal veil. 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 rain... | |
 | Marie Bernadette King - 1923 - 544 pages
...the mortal veil. 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 rain... | |
 | Frances Parkinson Keyes - 1924 - 376 pages
...emancipator; he was followed by Edwin Markham, who read his poem, "Lincoln, the Man of the People." The color of the ground was in him, the red earth, The smack and tang of elemental things . . . The strength of virgin forests braced his mind, The hush of... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter, Dwight Everett Watkins - 1925 - 296 pages
...the mortal veil. 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... | |
 | William Rose Benét - 1925 - 576 pages
...the mortal veil. 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 cliffs; The good-will of the... | |
 | Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - 1925 - 490 pages
...used images freely. Edwin Markham chooses these images to describe the character of Abraham Lincoln: "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... | |
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The color of the ground was in him, the red earth; The smack and tang of elemental things... 
