Description:Excerpt from Poems of American Patriotism Who now shall sneer?Who dare again to say we traceOur lines to a plebeian race?Roundhead and Cavalier!Dumb are those names, erewhile in battle loud;Dream-footed, as the shadow of a cloud, They flit across the ear;That is best blood that hath most iron in 'tTo edge resolve with, pouring without stintFor what makes manhood dear.Tell us not of Plantagenets, Hapsburgs, and Guelphs, whose thin bloods crawlDown from some victor in a border brawl!How poor their outworn coronets, Matched with one leaf of that plain civic wreathOur brave for honor's blazon shall bequeath, Through whose desert a rescued Nation setsHer heel on treason, and the trumpet hearsShout victory, tingling Europe's sullen earsWith vain resentments and more vain regrets! James Russel Lowell About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Poems of American Patriotism (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Poems of American Patriotism (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: Excerpt from Poems of American Patriotism Who now shall sneer?Who dare again to say we traceOur lines to a plebeian race?Roundhead and Cavalier!Dumb are those names, erewhile in battle loud;Dream-footed, as the shadow of a cloud, They flit across the ear;That is best blood that hath most iron in 'tTo edge resolve with, pouring without stintFor what makes manhood dear.Tell us not of Plantagenets, Hapsburgs, and Guelphs, whose thin bloods crawlDown from some victor in a border brawl!How poor their outworn coronets, Matched with one leaf of that plain civic wreathOur brave for honor's blazon shall bequeath, Through whose desert a rescued Nation setsHer heel on treason, and the trumpet hearsShout victory, tingling Europe's sullen earsWith vain resentments and more vain regrets! James Russel Lowell About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Poems of American Patriotism (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Poems of American Patriotism (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.