...Lowell : — O Beautiful : my country : ours once more : What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it Among the nations...doubt thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare. Our first lessons are to be about what love of country really means. We are to compare citizenship...

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...wrath's pale eclipse, The rosy edges of thy smile lay bare. What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it. Among the nations...doubt thee; But ask whatever else, and we will dare. — James Rtuseli Lowell. Patriotism is not only a legitimate sentiment, but a duty. There are countless...

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...wrath's pale eclipse, The rosy edges of their smile lay bare, What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it, Among the Nations...doubt thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare ! — Lowell: Commtmoration Odt. WHY WE ARE AT WAR ONE of the duties of Americans to-day, according...

...pale eclipse, The rosy edges of their smile lay bare— What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it, Among the Nations...doubt thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare I A cooler and more calculating service is suggested by Browning's " Home-Thought "—" Here and here...

...feel his responsibility to cooperate to his utmost with the Government in these critical times. • Among the Nations bright beyond compare! What were...doubt thee, . But ask whatever else, and we will dare ! — Lowell CN KENDALL October, 1917 Commissioner of Education THE SCHOOLS AND FOOD CONSERVATION To...

...the Glossary : abyss, tolerable, dissevered,. trophies, polluted, luster, interrogatory. OUR COUNTRY What were our lives without thee ? What all our lives...doubt thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare ! UNION AND LIBERTY Flag of the heroes who left us their glory, Borne through their battlefields' thunder...