 | Readers, American - 1905 - 474 pages
...to that pole; For, in this land of heaven's peculiar race, The heritage of nature's noblest grace, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and scepter, pageantry and pride, While in his softened... | |
 | Local history - 1905 - 312 pages
...trembles to that pole. For In this land of Heaven's peculiar grace The heritage of nature's noblest race. There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." This is the spot. And so here we are at home again, and it is our welcome opportunity to congratulate... | |
 | California - 1905 - 120 pages
...Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside; His home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. James Montgomery. All countries are a wise man's home. Samuel Butler. He who fights and runs away May... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American poetry - 1906 - 548 pages
...light, And milder moons im paradise the night; A land of beauty, virtue, valor, truth, Time-tutor' d age, and love-exalted youth : There is a spot of earth...blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where men, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his sojlen'd... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...Homely, — Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits, SHAKESPEARE, Two Gentlemen of Verona, i, 1 1 Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? Art thou a man? — a patriot? — look around ; Oh, thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home, JAMEs... | |
 | Frederick William Hackwood - Moral education - 1906 - 230 pages
...essentially an English word, and is intimately connected with the fire-side). Use the quotations — " There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." " Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home." — Goldsmith.... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - English poetry - 1906 - 424 pages
...Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside ; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. 11.— THE SLAVER. (FROM PART III.) LIVES there a savage ruder than the slave? — Cruel as death,... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1906 - 434 pages
...Deems his own land of every land the .pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. — James Montgomery. Union. The blood that flowed at Lexington, and crimsoned bright Champlain, Streams... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1906 - 76 pages
...Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. — James Montgomery. Union. The blood that flowed at Lexington, and crimsoned bright Champlain, Streams... | |
 | Civic Club of Carlisle, Pennsylvania - Carlisle (Pa.) - 1907 - 200 pages
...borders but of those that have gone elsewhere, who would unhesitatingly name this ancient borough the "spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest." Happy the mother who has such a rich heritage of love and loyalty in the hearts of her children ! If... | |
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