If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present ...to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green.... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Seen from this point, a bare ridge at the extremity of the open land, Ktaadn presented a different aspect from any mountain I have... seen, there being a greater proportion of naked rock rising abruptly from the forest; and we looked up at this blue barrier as if it were some fragment of a wall which anciently bounded the earth in that direction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All our Concord waters have two colors at least; one when viewed at a distance, and another, more proper, close at hand.... Walden... is blue at one time and green at another, even from the same point of view. Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the color of both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and stanch he stands;... And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And the musket moulds in his hands. Time was when the little toy dog was new, And the soldier was passing fair; And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue Kissed them and put them there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And they wonder, as waiting the long years through In the dust of that little chair,... What has become of our Little Boy Blue, Since he kissed them and put them there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No more shall the war cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red:... They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead! Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the Judgment Day:-- Love and tears for the Blue; Tears and love for the Gray.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly,... Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »