 | 1842 - 612 Seiten
...dreadful groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...terror, — Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and sports, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. Down the... | |
 | International peace society - 232 Seiten
...such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownost Nature's sweet arid kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies?...bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the buman mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts : The warrior's name would bo a name... | |
 | 1872 - 1120 Seiten
...magnanimously forgiven. THE NAUTICAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. DECEMBER, 1872. THE GENEVA ARBITRATION. Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...human mind from error, There were no need for arsenals and forts.* THE passions of mankind are, perhaps, as fierce as ever they were, but they are more frequently... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 Seiten
...the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, 15 Thou drownest nature's sweet and kindly voices, 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 ! And every... | |
 | 1844 - 784 Seiten
...Is it, oh man, with such discordant noise?, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drown est Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the...terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and court?, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts. The warrior's... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1845 - 108 Seiten
...attractive of any in the poem, but which commend themselves by their intrinsic truth and moral force ; Were half the power that fills the world with terror,...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... | |
 | 1846 - 308 Seiten
...With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarreHt the celestial harmonies '. Were half the power, that...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, that should... | |
 | 1846 - 302 Seiten
...instruments as these, Thou drowneet Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies 1 Were half the power, that fills the world with terror....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, that should... | |
 | 1873 - 398 Seiten
...for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleagured towns. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, (riven to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forte : The warrior's... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...musketry, the clashing blade, And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. It is, O man, with such discordant noises — With such accursed...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 that should lift... | |
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The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man ! with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou... 
