Green, green is El Aghir. It has a railway station, And the wealth of its soil has borne many another fruit:... A mairie, a school and an elegant Salle de Fetes. Such blessings, as I remarked, in effect, to the waiter, Are added unto them that have plenty of water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No prayers or incense rose up in those hours Which grew to be years, and every day came mute... Ghosts from the ovens, sitting through crisp air, And settled upon his eyes in a black soot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Composed in the Tower before his execution These moving verses, and being brought at that time... Painfully to the stake, submitted, declaring thus: "I implore my God to witness that I have made no crime."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Be proud! for she is saved, and all have helped to save her! She that lifts up the manhood of the poor,... She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind! The fire is dreadful in her eyes no more; From her bold front the helm she doth unbind, Sends all her handmaid armies back to spin, And bids her navies, that so lately hurled Their crashing battle, hold their thunders in, Swimming like birds of calm along the unharmful shore. No challenge sends she to the elder world, That looked askance and hated; a light scorn Plays o'er her mouth, as round her mighty knees She calls her children back, and waits the morn Of nobler day, enthroned between her subject seas.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »