 | 1917 - 566 ページ
...selections should be read, I was scared almost voiceless when it came my turn to read them before the class. Strike for your altars and your fires, Strike for...graves of your sires — God and your native land always reduced me to a trembling breathlessness. The sight of the emphatic print was a call to all... | |
 | Hamlin Garland - 1917 - 488 ページ
...selections should be read, I was scared almost voiceless when it came my turn to read them before the class. "STRIKE FOR YOUR ALTARS AND YOUR FIRES. STRIKE FOR...GRAVES OF YOUR SIRES — GOD AND YOUR NATIVE LAND," always reduced me to a trembling breathlessness. The sight of the emphatic print was a call to the... | |
 | 1913 - 1050 ページ
...life. The familiar lines of Fitz-Greene Halleck's "Marco Bozzaris" admirably serve the purpose : " Strike, for your altars and your fires ; Strike, for...green graves of your sires, God, and your native land ! " Our "altars" are the symbol of our religion. "No God, no master," is the cry of the Socialists,... | |
 | 1913 - 1050 ページ
...life. The familiar lines of Fitz-Greene Halleck's "Marco Bozzaris" admirably serve the purpose : " Strike, for your altars and your fires ; Strike, for...green graves of your sires, God, and your native land ! " Our "altars" are the symbol of our religion. "No God, no master," is the cry of the Socialists,... | |
 | 1915 - 596 ページ
...scared into breathlessness whenever it came my turn to read those intensely dramatic, capitalized lines: "Strike, for your altars and your fires, Strike, for...green graves of your sires, God and your native land!" I was especially intimidated by that verse in "The Battle of Waterloo," which whisperingly inquires,... | |
 | 1881 - 1148 ページ
...free institutions. Come to the army of Missouri, not for a week, or a month, but to free your country. Strike till the last armed foe expires, Strike for...graves of your sires — God and your native land. The burning fires of patriotism must inspire and lead you, or all is lost — lost, too, just at the... | |
 | Virgil A. Anderson - 1977 - 494 ページ
...'Forward the light brigade! Charge for the guns!' he said. e. Open; 'tis I, the king! Art thou afraid? Strike— for your altars and your fires, Strike—...graves of your sires, God— and your native land!' h. If I were an American as I am an Englishman, and foreign troop were landed in my country, I would... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1915 - 326 ページ
..."Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land !" Strike — for your altars and your fires ! Strike...graves of your sires ! God, and your native land!" And there was a battle royal. The first blow then the fire of ink. Every one fought for himself and... | |
 | Eric L. Haralson, John Hollander - 1998 - 598 ページ
...more reminiscent of a backwoods militia. This can be glimpsed in Bozzaris's cheers to his soldiers: "Strike - till the last armed foe expires; Strike...graves of your sires; God - and your native land!" This vigorous exhortation is quite reminiscent of the cry at the Revolutionary battle of Bennington,... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - 404 ページ
...these amenities has not entitled these Gentlemen Adventurers to claim rank as patriots. The poet says: "Strike for your altars and your fires! Strike for...green graves of your sires! God and your native land!" But, again, a temperate scrutiny of the list of desiderata so enumerated in the poet's flight, will... | |
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Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires, God — and your native land! 
