ISBN: 9781153857956

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Excerpt: ... I lo… Altro …

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Excerpt: ... I looked, no form mine eyes could find, I heard the red cock crowing, And through my window-chinks the wind A dismal tune was blowing; Thought I, My neighbor Buckingham Hath somewhat in him gritty, Some Pilgrim-stuff that hates all sham, And he will print my ditty. ON THE CAPTURE OF FUGITIVE SLAVES NEAR WASHINGTON Look on who will in apathy, and stifle they who can, The sympathies, the hopes, the words, that make man truly man; Let those whose hearts are dungeoned up with interest or with ease Consent to hear with quiet pulse of loathsome deeds like these! I first drew in New England''s air, and from her hardy breast Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest; . And if my words seem treason to the dullard and the tame, ''T is but my Bay-State dialect, -- our fathers spake the same! Shame on the costly mockery of piling stone on stone To those who won our liberty, the heroes dead and gone, While we look coldly on and see law-shielded ruffians slay The men who fain would win their own, the heroes of to-day! Are we pledged to craven silence? Oh, fling it to the wind, The parchment wall that bars us from the least of human kind, That makes us cringe and temporize, and dumbly stand at rest, While Pity''s burning flood of words is red-hot in the breast! Though we break our fathers'' promise, we have nobler duties first; The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God! We owe allegiance to the State; but deeper, truer, more, To the sympathies that God hath set within our spirit''s core; Our country claims our fealty ; we grant it so, but then Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. He''s true to God who''s true to man; wherever wrong is... James Russell Lowell, Books, Fiction and Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Volume 9) Books>Fiction and Literature>Literary Theory and Criticism, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1153857952

Taschenbuch, [EAN: 9781153857956], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Book, [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 60262011, Theate… Altro …

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