Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations

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Appeal to reason, 1908 - 515 páginas

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Página 63 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 340 - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Página 80 - Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
Página 364 - ... two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Página 91 - Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended, Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded...
Página 47 - He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done, To the humblest and the weakest, 'neath the all-beholding sun, That wrong is also done to us ; and they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves, and not for all their race.
Página 293 - Slavery, the earth-born Cyclops, fellest of the giant brood, Sons of brutish Force and Darkness, who have drenched the earth with blood, Famished in his self-made desert, blinded by our purer day, Gropes in yet unblasted regions for his miserable prey — Shall we guide his gory fingers where our helpless children play...
Página 502 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Página 295 - Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes,— they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

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