Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation... The Poets and Poetry of America - Page 357by Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 622 pagesFull view - About this book
| International peace society - 232 pages
...forward the sure progress of that blissful era, when, in the anticipatory language of the poet — ' The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ; And...Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would bear for evermore the curse of Cain ;' " Sixth Month, 1850." " I am thy sincere friend, " MCJ' THE... | |
| 1844 - 784 pages
...half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and court?, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were...The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And ever)' nation that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on ils forehead Would wear forevennore... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, 20 There were no need of arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred...every nation that should lift again Its hand against its brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! 25 Down the dark future, through... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...20 There were no need of arsenals and forts. Were half the power that fills the world with terror, The warrior's name would be a name abhorred! And every nation that should lift again Its hand against its brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! 25 Down the dark future, through... | |
| Charles Sumner - Fourth of July orations - 1845 - 108 pages
...moral force ; Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And every nation that should lift again Its... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...harmonies ? Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, 9 Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind...hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The echoing sounds... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...harmonies '. Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind...every nation, that should lift again Its hand against u brother, on its forehead Would wearforevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through... | |
| Arbitration (International law) - 1873 - 398 pages
...camps and courts, (riven to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forte : The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And...hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations. The echoing sounds... | |
| John Gregory - 1847 - 120 pages
...courts,. Given to redeem the human mind from error, TKere would be ho need of arsenals an«I fotta. The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! And...every nation that should lift again Its hand against its brother, on its forehead, , Wbuld wear for evermore the curse of Cain !" I might go on and show... | |
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