An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830: At the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the CityJohn H. Eastburn, city printer, 1830 - 22 páginas |
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amount ancient Archbishop Laud asso B. T. PICKMAN blessings centuries Chalmers character charity charter church citizens of Boston City Council civil and religious colony Committee of Arrangements commonwealth conscience consequences constitution Court dare darkness declaration descendants early ancestors early emigrants England English hierarchy eral excluded faith fathers fear forms glory Governor H. G. OTIS happy HARRISON GRAY OTIS Harvard College hath heart hills honor human independence influence inhabitants institutions intellectual JOSIAH QUINCY kindred land laws ligion living magistrates Massachusetts ment metropolis monarch moral motives multitude nature o'er objects patent patriots peace Pilgrim plantation possession pride principles privileges prosperity Puritans quo warranto religious liberty round savage sects SEPTEMBER 17 September 20 Settlement of Boston shore society spirit spot submission thousand tical tion Town House virtues wealth whole wilderness WINSLOW LEWIS Winthrop zeal
Passagens conhecidas
Página 12 - Approach : but awful ! lo ! the /Egerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, St. John* sat and thought ; Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole, And the bright flame was shot through Marchmont's soul. Let such, such only, tread this sacred floor, Who dare to love their country, and be poor...
Página 4 - Behold ! they come — those sainted forms, Unshaken through the strife of storms ; Heaven's winter cloud hangs coldly down, And earth puts on its rudest frown ; But colder, ruder was the hand That drove them from their own fair land ; Their own fair land — refinement's chosen seat, Art's trophied dwelling, learning's green retreat; By valor guarded, and by victory crowned, For all, but gentle charity, renowned.
Página 7 - In grateful adoration now, Upon the barren sands they bow. What tongue of joy e'er woke such prayer, As bursts in desolation there ? What arm of strength e'er wrought such power, As waits to crown that feeble hour...
Página 8 - O, many a time it hath been told, The story of those men of old : For this fair Poetry hath wreathed Her sweetest, purest flower ; For this proud Eloquence hath breathed His strain of loftiest power : Devotion, too, hath lingered round Each spot of consecrated ground, And hill and valley blessed ; There, where our banished fathers strayed, There, where they loved, and wept, and prayed, There, where their ashes rest.
Página 6 - Yet, strong in weakness, there they stand, On yonder ice-bound rock, Stern and resolved, that faithful band, To meet Fate's rudest shock. Though anguish rends the father's breast, For them, his dearest and his best, With him the waste who trod — Though tears that freeze the mother sheds Upon her children's houseless heads — The Christian turns to God ! vm.
Página 8 - The dreaming nations shall awake, And to their centre earth's old kingdoms shake. Pontiff and prince, your sway Must crumble from that day ; Before the loftier throne of Heaven, The hand is raised, the pledge is given — One monarch to obey, one creed to own, That monarch, God, that creed, His word alone. • IX. Spread out earth's holiest records here, Of days and deeds to reverence dear ; A zeal like this what pious legends tell...
Página 9 - And never may they rest unsung, While liberty can find a tongue. Twine, Gratitude, a wreath for them, More deathless than the diadem, Who to life's noblest end, Gave up life's noblest powers, And bade the legacy descend, Down, down to us and ours.
Página 50 - ... labor. What lessons has New England, in every period of her history, given to the world ! What lessons do her condition and example still give ! How unprecedented ; yet how practical ! How simple ; yet how powerful ! She has proved, that all the variety of Christian sects may live together in harmony, under a government, which allows equal privileges to all, — exclusive pre-eminence to none. She has proved, that ignorance among the multitude is not necessary to order, but that the surest basis...
Página 17 - Where once the death-whoop vexed the air: The Pilgrim — seek yon ancient place of graves, Beneath that chapel's holy shade ; Ask, where the breeze the long grass waves, Who, who within that spot are laid: The Patriot — go, to fame's proud mount repair, The tardy pile, slow rising there, With tongueless eloquence shall tell Of them who for their country fell.
Página 52 - Man passes away; generations are but shadows ; there is nothing stable but truth; .principles only are immortal. What then, in conclusion of this great topic, are the elements of the liberty, prosperity, and safety which the inhabitants of New England at this day enjoy ? In what language, and Concerning what comprehensive truths does the wisdom of former times address the inexperience of the future ? Those elements are simple, obvious, and familiar. Every civil and religious blessing of New England,...