 | Amory Howe Bradford - Congregational churches - 1893 - 344 pages
...soar and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame And chased them up to heaven. Their...ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their name No bard embalms and sanctifies his song ; And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this."... | |
 | Henry Beebee Carrington - American literature - 1894 - 443 pages
...with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free,...remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flow, No marble tells us whither.... | |
 | 1895
...in which the poet sings the dirge of the martyrs : — they lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew No marble tells us whither. Next to the contemplation of virtue, the praise of liberty was n kindred, and to Cowper an equally... | |
 | William Cowper - 1898 - 243 pages
...with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, 720 Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free,...remember them. They lived unknown Till Persecution dragged them into fame, 725 And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither.... | |
 | Thomas Hall Pearne - Jamaica - 1898 - 491 pages
...given them their name and their glory. "They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them forth to fame, And chased them up to heaven ; their ashes flew, No marble tells us whither." It was a like unselfish consecration to the cause of country, and home, and altars, which has made... | |
 | Joseph James Neave - Christian literature - 1899 - 316 pages
...it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free,...remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900
...with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, 720 Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free,...remember them. They lived unknown Till Persecution dragged them into fame, 725 And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 672 pages
...more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — 720 Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free,...anticipate the skies ! Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to heav'n. Their ashes flew... | |
 | Medical libraries - 1906
...* * * * * Their noblest blood is shed. In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth. To Walk with God, to be divinely free,...and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them! * * * * * * With their names And now, lest our enthusiasm evaporate in words and leave us spiritually... | |
 | Eri Baker Hulbert - Electronic book - 1907 - 484 pages
...learn of them chiefly through these trials and burnings. They lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame And chased them up to heaven. Their...ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their name No bard embalms and sanctifies his song; And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this.... | |
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Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. 
