"Unfeared" Quotes from Famous Books
... dark caverns yield, See ocean roll, in glory dressed, For all a treasure, and round all a shield: Hark to the shouts of praise Rejoicing millions raise; Gaze on the spires that rise, To point them to the skies, Unfearing and unfeared; Then, if ye can, O then forget To whom ye owe the sacred debt— The Pilgrim race revered! The men who set faith's burning lights Upon these everlasting heights, To guide their children through the years of time; The men that glorious law who taught, Unshrinking liberty ... — An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, • Charles Sprague
... our soul! during the bright ardours of boyhood, when the present was all-sufficient in its own bliss, the past soon forgotten, and the future unfeared, what might have been thy lot, beloved Harry Wilton, had thy span of life been prolonged to this very day? Better—oh! far better was it for thee and thine that thou didst so early die; for it seemeth that a curse is on that lofty lineage; and that, with all their genius, ... — Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson |