Amerika in Amerikanci

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Samozaložba, 1912 - 608 pages

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Page 237 - That old bell now is silent, And hushed its iron tongue, But the spirit it awakened Still lives — forever young. And while we greet the sunlight On the Fourth of each July, We'll ne'er forget the bellman, Who, 'twixt the earth and sky, Rung out our Independence, Which, please God, shall never die ! THE WHISTLE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NOTE TO THK PUPIL.
Page 256 - So we made a thoroughfare for Freedom and her train, Sixty miles in latitude, three hundred to the main; Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain, While we were marching through Georgia.
Page 210 - Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest, crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race that long has passed away Built them; a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
Page 155 - Farewell, O my Laughing Water ! All my heart is buried with you. All my thoughts go onward with you ! Come not back again to labor, Come not back again to suffer, Where the Famine and the Fever Wear the heart and waste the body. Soon my task will be completed, Soon your footsteps I shall follow To the Islands of the Blessed, To the kingdom of Ponemah !" To the Land of the Hereafter !
Page 237 - What rejoicing! How the old bell shook the air, Till the clang of Freedom ruffled The calm, gliding Delaware! How the bonfires and the torches Illumed the night's repose!
Page 259 - Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.
Page 254 - Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun, There are battles with Fate that can never be won ! The star-flowering banner must never be furled, For its blossoms of light are the hope of the world ! Go, then, our rash sister ! afar and aloof, Run wild in the sunshine away from our roof; But when your heart aches and your feet have grown sore, Remember the pathway that leads to our door!
Page 237 - Ring! grandpa, Ring! oh, ring for LIBERTY!" Quickly at the given signal The old bellman lifts his hand, Forth he sends the good news, making Iron music through the land. How they shouted! What rejoicing! How the old bell shook the air, Till the clang of freedom ruffled The calmly gliding Delaware!
Page 460 - In ko ura nam odbije, črna zemlja nas pokrije; kdo bo še po nas poprašal? Kdo se z nami bo ponašal? Kako rod za rodom gine, to povest je domovine, vsemu svetu nepoznane, od nikogar spoštovane. Kje nek' zemlja grobe krije, kjer junaki domačije mirno smrtno spanje spe?
Page 384 - I believe in 1869, during a miners' strike which was then in progress, a man who was connected with one of the coal companies made the statement that in order to defeat the men in their demands it would be necessary to bring cheap labor from Europe, and shortly after that, miners were noticed coming to the anthracite region in large numbers from Italy, Hungary, Russia, and other far-off lands.

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