 | William Cowper - 1821 - 556 σελίδες
...laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed...remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Then- ashes flew — No marble tells us whither.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 σελίδες
...laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown, Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to Heav'n. Their ashes flew... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 σελίδες
...laws; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed...into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song: And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 σελίδες
...laws; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with .more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed...into fame, And chased them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew —So marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song: And history,... | |
 | Henry Kollock - 1822 - 510 σελίδες
...the words of eternal life. And see next to them the glorious company of martyrs and confessors, " who lived unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chased them up to heaven :" — who waded through seas of blood, who submitted cheerfully to every torture, upheld by the Spirit... | |
 | 1833 - 958 σελίδες
...they proved faithful to the cause, for the promotion of which you sent them out : — " Their nam^n unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame. And chased them up to heaven." But this has roused a spirit in England which will not soon fail. Yes ; I rejoice to think, that by... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 σελίδες
...laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed...into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes new — No marble tells u» whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his sung : And... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 σελίδες
...laws; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win It with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed...remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution drage'd thorn into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew _No marble tells us whither.... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1824 - 396 σελίδες
...laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to...anticipate the skies ! Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 σελίδες
...laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown, Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to Heav'n. Their ashes flew... | |
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Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. 
