 | William Cowper - 1851 - Liczba stron: 790
...And Thornton is familiar with the joy. Charity. The martyrs of the Reformation : Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...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... | |
 | ROBERT FERGUSON, LL.D. - 1851 - Liczba stron: 262
...To those who, posted at the shr.ue of truth, Have fallen in her defence . . . . Their blood is shed, In confirmation of the noblest claim— Our claim...and to anticipate the skies : Yet few remember them .... With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song; And history, go warm on meaner themes,... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1852 - Liczba stron: 584
...posted at the shrine of Truth, Have fallen in her defence. ° ° ° ° 0 • • oo Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim...Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With theij names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song ! And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - Liczba stron: 444
...laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. 3. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim...remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, • 4. Their ashes flew No marble tells us whither. With their names, No bard... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865 - Liczba stron: 454
...equal laws. But martyrs struggle for a brighter pri2e, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim...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.... | |
 | Giles Hester - 1865 - Liczba stron: 88
...joy. He died in defence oi that cause which was more precious to him than life. His blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim...soar and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember him. He lived unknown Till persecution dragg'd him into fame, And chased him up to heaven. His ashes... | |
 | Joseph Stratford - 1865 - Liczba stron: 448
...man, every word, by way of eminence, belongs to the memory of William Tyndale." " His blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember him. He lived unknown Till persecution dragg'd him into fame, And chased him up to Heaven. His ashes... | |
 | Our life - 1865 - Liczba stron: 234
...Gilberl ... 153 But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — • Our claim...divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skies. Cowper, The Lollard's Prison ........... J. Gilbert ... 154 For he has wings that neither sickness,... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - Liczba stron: 168
...equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...to Heaven. Their ashes flew— No marble tells us whether. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song ; And History, so warm on meaner... | |
 | H. L. L., Jane Laurie Borthwick - 1866 - Liczba stron: 316
...equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a nobler prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim...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.... | |
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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! 
