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Page 20 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Page 18 - President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Page 95 - I shall never hear her more, By the reedy Lindis shore, "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha !" calling Ere the early dews be falling; I shall never hear her song, "Cusha! Cusha!
Page 19 - 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, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 19 - Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
Page 20 - What is all this worth ? Nor those other words of delusion and folly, Liberty first, and Union afterwards; but everywhere spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment...
Page 20 - Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured; bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as, What is all this worth...
Page 95 - all along, Where the sunny Lindis floweth, Goeth, floweth, From the meads where melick groweth, "Where the water, winding down, Onward floweth to the town. I shall never see her more, Where the reeds and rushes quiver, Shiver, quiver, Stand beside the sobbing river, — Sobbing, throbbing, in its falling, To the sandy, lonesome shore ; I shall never hear her calling, " Leave your meadow grasses mellow, Mellow, mellow ! Quit your cowslips, cowslips yellow ! Come uppe, Whitefoot ! come uppe, Lightfoot...
Page 33 - Filling the sky and the earth below! Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet; Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along.
Page 18 - Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation...