 What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom...  Elementary English... - Page 127by Lillian Gertrude Kimball - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - American poetry - 1837 - 416 pages
...There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar 1 Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 344 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode : They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Thomas Gage - Rowley (Mass. : Town) - 1840 - 530 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine" And should not this, at every necessary expense and labor, be our grand object, both for ourselves... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1840 - 350 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode : They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1840 - 342 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode. They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Barnstable (Mass.) - Barnstable (Mass.) - 1840 - 148 pages
...the white wave's foam, And the rocking pines of the forest roared — This was their welcome home! What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod! They left unstained what there they found... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war * — They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 218 pages
...their homes, and with their families they sought independence in the savage deserts of North America. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the...spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine.* The Rev. Cotton Mather, an evangelical minister of Boston, in his Ecclesiastical History of New England,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1842 - 334 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trode : They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
 | Children's literature - 1846 - 872 pages
...Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?...spoils of war ? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstain'd what there they... | |
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