Sons of Italy: A Social and Religious Study of the Italians in America |
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Page 196 - WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action — Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let...
Page 196 - And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Page 219 - Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel ; for He hath glorified thee.
Page 159 - Go your way and tell John what things ye have seen and heard : the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up...
Page 196 - And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, And the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord : Men shall call you the Ministers of our God : Ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, And in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
Page 197 - Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the twoleaved gates ; and the gates shall not be shut...
Page 98 - Marianina, Fiametta, Teresina, They are winding stems of roses, one by one, one by one. Let them have a long, long playtime, Lord of Toil, when toil is done, Fill their baby hands with roses, joyous roses of the sun!
Page 98 - ... Fiametta, Teresina, They are winding stems of roses, one by one, one by one, Little children, who have never learned to play; Teresina softly crying that her fingers ache to-day; Tiny Fiametta nodding when the twilight slips in, gray. High above the clattering street, ambulance and fire-gong beat, They sit, curling crimson petals, one by one, one by one. Lisabetta, Marianina, Fiametta, Teresina, They have never seen a rosebush nor a dewdrop in the sun.
Page 220 - ... wafts across the seas to all the oppressed of mankind. What, I wonder, do they know of America, who know only America? The more I think upon the subject the more I become persuaded that the relation of the teacher and the taught as between those who were born and those who came here must be reversed. It is the free American who needs to be instructed by the benighted races in the uplifting word that America speaks to all the world. Only from the humble immigrant, it appears to me, can he learn...
Page 202 - That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the...