 | William McCarty - 1842 - 482 pages
...PRIME, OF NEW YORK. Written about the year, 1768. IN story we're told, How our fathers of old Braved the rage of the wind and the waves ; And cross'd the...brave boys! All because they were loath to be slaves. Yet a strange scheme of late, Has been formed in the state, By a knot of political knaves; Who in secret... | |
 | National songs - 1857 - 172 pages
...PRIME, OF NEW YORK. Written about the year, 1768. IN story we're told, How our fathers of old Braved the rage of the wind and the waves ; And cross'd the...brave boys ! All because they were loath to be slaves. Yet a strange scheme of late, Has been formed in the state, By a knot of political knaves; . Who in... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - New York (State) - 1859 - 126 pages
...following specimens : '' Tu Story we 're told, How our Fathers of old, Brav'd the Rage of the Winds and the Waves, And cross'd the Deep o'er, To this Desolate Shore, All because they were loth to be SLATES ; Brace tivys. All because they were loth to be SLAVES. II. Yet a strange Scheme... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin Prime - Prime family (James Prime, d. 1685) - 1888 - 136 pages
..."In story we're told How our fathers of old Braved the rage of the winds and the waves, And crossed the deep o'er To this desolate shore, All because...Brave boys, All because they were loath to be slaves. ' ' Heav'n only controls The great deep as it rolls ; And the tide which our continent laves Emphatical... | |
 | Charles Anson Ingraham - 1922 - 296 pages
...reads: In story we're told How our fathers old Braved the rage of the winds and the waves, And crossed the deep o'er To this desolate shore, All because...Brave boys, All because they were loath to be slaves. During the latter years of the life of his father, Dr. Prime made his home with him at Huntington,... | |
 | Oscar Jewell Harvey - Civic leaders - 1909 - 722 pages
...following are some of its stanzas. "In story we're told How our fathers of old Brav'd the rage of the winds and the waves, And cross'd the deep o'er, To this...brave boys ! All because they were loath to be slaves. "Yet a strange scheme, of late. Has been formed in the State, By a knot of political knaves ; Who in... | |
 | Elocution - 1899 - 580 pages
...In story we're told How our fathers of old Braved the rage of the winds and the waves, And crossed the deep o'er, To this desolate shore, All because...brave boys ! All because they were loath to be slaves. Yet a strange scheme of late Has been found in the state By a knot of political knaves, Who in secret... | |
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IN story we're told, How our fathers of old Braved the rage of the wind and the waves ; And cross'd the deep o'er, To this desolate shore, All because they were loath to be slaves, brave boys ! All because they were loath to be slaves. Yet a strange scheme... 