| 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... | |
| 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*... | |
| Alpheus Crosby - 1865 - 32 pages
...still strive in our efforts ; they triumph in our success. It is thus that " They never fail who die In a great cause. The block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs lie strung to city gates and castle walls : But still their spirit is abroad. Though years Elapse,... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1866 - 328 pages
...indeed, no throne —compared to the scaffold whereon a great man perishes. " They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ;...castle walls, But still their spirit walks abroad." And, again, the same poet, Byron, asks, "What were we if Brutus had not lived ? He died in giving Rome... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 480 pages
...heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore. Col. But if we fail— /. Ber. They never fail who die Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be...castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse , and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts... | |
| Bartholomew S. De Forest - 1866 - 338 pages
...SKETCHES AND WANDEEING THOUGHTS. 1862. "They never fail who die In a great Cause; the block may Boak their gore, Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates or castle walls ; But still their spirits walk abroad, though years Elapse, and others share as dark... | |
| Kate Cumming - 1866 - 218 pages
...not offered up their lives in vain. "For they never fail who die In a just cause. The block may suck Their gore; their heads may sodden In the sun ; their limbs be strung To city-gates and castle-walls, But still their spirits walk abroad, And never rest till the great cause... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...to Heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore. " But if we fail — ? " They never fail who die In a great cause: the block may soak their gore; Their...castle walls, — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867 - 460 pages
...heaven And draw down freedom on her evermore. Cal. But if we fail /. Iier. They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ;...castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thought*... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1867 - 422 pages
...felt, although, intellectually, I did not fully concur with Byron, that — " They never fail who die In a great cause. The block may soak their gore ;...castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts... | |
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