 | P. A. Fitzgerald - 1855 - 296 pagina’s
...penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent; or on a... | |
 | Joseph Glover Baldwin - 1855 - 398 pagina’s
...little boys of Patagonia, then annexed, will be making the walls of the schoolhouses ring with — " When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union," &c. It has been said that the speeches and writings... | |
 | William Smyth - 1855 - 588 pagina’s
...penetrate the veil. God grunt, that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When...behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may 1 not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments* of a once glorious union ; on states... | |
 | William Russell - 1855 - 310 pagina’s
...penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! — When...be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in the heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union;... | |
 | 1855 - 902 pagina’s
...joins in the memorable aspiration of Webster, (in his reply to Hayne,) that when his " eyes should be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, he might not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments x>fa once glorious Union ; on States... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pagina’s
...penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | 1856 - 282 pagina’s
...penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent ; or on... | |
 | 1856 - 286 pagina’s
...penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent; or on a... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pagina’s
...penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day at least, that curtain may not rise ! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When...Heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States severed, discordant, belligerent ; on a land... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pagina’s
...penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day at least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for fhe last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments... | |
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When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched,... 
