| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Julia Ward Howe. (18191910) (continued) |
| | | 7441 | In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic. |
| 7442 | Weave no more silks, ye Lyons looms, To deck our girls for gay delights! The crimson flower of battle blooms, And solemn marches fill the nights. |
| Our Orders. |
| 7443 | The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses gainst tyrants its symbols know. |
| The Flag. |
| | | Alice Cary. (18201871) |
| | | 7444 | My soul is full of whispered song, My blindness is my sight; The shadows that I feared so long Are full of life and light. |
| Dying Hymn. |
| | | Henry Howard Brownell. (18201872) |
| | | 7445 | Up the River of Death Sailed the Great Admiral! |
| The River Fight. |
| 7446 | You might have deemed our long gun-deck Two hundred feet of hell. 1 |
| The River Fight. |
| | Note 1. Remark attributed to General William Tecumseh Sherman (18201891): War is hell. Henry van Dyke: On the St. Gaudens Statue of Sherman: This is the soldier brave enough to tell The glory-dazzled world that war is hell. [back] |
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