 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pàgines
...home Across the sands of Dee. WILLIAM KNOX. oa.' war SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD? OH ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting...cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be... | |
 | J Byres Laing - 1852 - 44 pàgines
...KNOX'S SONGS OF ISBAEL. MORTALITY. O WHY should the spirit of mortal be proud 1 Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave — He passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willows sliall fade,... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1859 - 304 pàgines
...friends rejoin in heaveD. MORTALITY. OH ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud J Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud ; A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life, to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willows shall fade, Be... | |
 | 1859 - 374 pàgines
...for heaven to prepare. MORTALITY. O why should the spirit of mortal be proud ! Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, • A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered... | |
 | 1862 - 568 pàgines
...EMEBSON TESITBST." " MORTALITY." " O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like n fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, — He passes from life to his rest in the grave. " The leaves of the oak and the willows shall fade,... | |
 | 1908 - 774 pàgines
...or of a friend but that there comes sweeping into my mind that verse so loved of Lincoln : Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting...A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave; Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. I quote these verses in order that I may venture to dissent... | |
 | 1864 - 272 pàgines
...I wrote the lines down, one by one, from his lips." OH ! WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MOETAL BE P&OUD ? O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like...cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and willow shall fade, Be scattered... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 444 pàgines
...in'fant ; fcp's/ordepWis; s'riuk/or sArink. PRES. LINCOLN'S FAVORITE POEM. — MoCurcHEOS. 1. Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting...cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. 2. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,... | |
 | 1865 - 398 pàgines
...intrinsic beauty, but because when we read them we seem to get near his great and loving heart : — Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? Like a swift-fleeting...cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to bis rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 840 pàgines
...feet, as nearly as I remember, I wrote the verses down, one by one, as he uttered them :* — Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? — Like a...cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fnde, Be... | |
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Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?— . Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. 
