 As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings,...  The Legion of Liberty: And Force of Truth, Containing the Thoughts, Words ... - Page 207by Julius Rubens Ames - 1857 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1915 - 328 pages
...one grateful word or look, but treachery, robbery and assassination from the hands of the Germans. Then what is man, and what man seeing this. And having...not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man? The sun had retired to his evening rest among the golden clouds of the far west, and vanished from... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...sweat With stripes that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. 25 Then what is man? And what man seeing this, And having...not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, so And tremble when... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...brother, and destroys; 20 And worse than all, and most to be deplored, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts...bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast.zs Then what is man? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...sweat With stripes that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. 25 pass from theological and philosophical truth, to...; it will be acknowledged even by those that pract I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...destroys; And worse than all, and most to be deplored, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, it 25 Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...his sweat With stripes that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast.2s Then what is man? And what man seeing this, And having...not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...most to be deplored, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, 22 1 bagpipe l Cf. Jeremiah, ix : 2 Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, 25 Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, docs not blush And hang... | |
 | William James McKnight - Jefferson County (Pa.) - 1917 - 648 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven human beings were considered "property" within her borders and held as slaves. Chains him and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With...that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees it inflicted on a beast. In 1840 slavery still existed in Pennsylvania, the total number being seventy-five,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...his brother, and destroys ; And worse than all, and most to be deplored, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts...sweat With stripes that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, 25 Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...his brother, and destroys; And worse than all, and most to be deplored, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts...not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when... | |
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