 When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,...  Heart Throbs: In Prose and Verse - Page 1601905 - 435 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Glover Baldwin - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 398 pages
...little boys of Patagonia, then annexed, will be making the walls of the schoolhouses ring with — " When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union," &c. It has been said that the speeches and writings of Webster will live long after Clay's shall have... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 590 pages
...may not rise ! God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my e3•es shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 588 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may 1 not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments* of a once glorious union ; on states... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their lost feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...least, that cnrtain mny not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it mny be, in frntenial blood I Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gnrgeous... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States severed, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 286 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent; or on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 282 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent ; or on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for fhe last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 656 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood 1 Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now... | |
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