 The Arsenal at Springfield ": "Down the dark future through long generations, The echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease, And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say Peace: — Peace, and no longer  The Advocate of Peace - Page 1801900Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 612 pages
...camps and sports, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals and forts. Down the dark future, through long generations, The...I hear once more the voice of Christ say, 'Peace.' ' Peace,'—and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies;... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pages
...should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...vibrations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say " Peace !" The tumult of each sacked nnd burning village j The shout, that every prayer for mercy drowns; Peace... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...voice of Christ say, " Peace!" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1847 - 136 pages
...should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...voice of Christ say, "Peace!" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! • But beautiful as songs... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! 32 POEMS. Down the dark future, through long generations, The...voice of Christ say, " Peace!" Peace! and no longer from its brazen por The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1848 - 584 pages
...lorchead Would wear for evermore the curso of Cain ! Down the dirk future, through long generations, Tlie echoing sounds grow fainter and then cease; And like...hear once more the voice of Christ say •• Peace !" Pi-ace ! and no longer from its brazen portala The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies!... | |
 | Hymns - 1849 - 478 pages
...M. LONGFELLOW. PEACE ON EARTH. 1 DOWN the dark future, through long generations, The sounds of war grow fainter and then cease; And, like a bell with...I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace!" 2 Peace! and no longer, from its brazen portals, The blast of war's great organ shakes the skies; But... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...alarms. Ah! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death-angel touches those swift keys! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...voice of Christ say, " Peace!" Peace ! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of... | |
 | Gems - 1850 - 204 pages
...lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Would wear for evermore the curse of Cain ! Down the dark future, through long generations, The...voice of Christ say " Peace ! " Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But, beautiful as songs of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...name abhorred ! And every nation, that should lift again Its hand against a brother, on its forehead Down the dark future, through long generations, The...voice of Christ say, " Peace!" Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies ! But beautiful as songs of... | |
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