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" Red of the Dawn ! Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The Ghost of the Brute that is walking and haunting us yet, and be free? In a hundred, a thousand winters? Ah, what will our children be, The men of a hundred thousand, a million... "
The Death of Œnone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems - Page 84
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 113 pages
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New Outlook, Volume 56

1897 - 1272 pages
...fills the world with misfits ? Was it a true presentiment of this that made Tennyson exclaim, . . . Ah, what will our children be, The men of a hundred thousand, a million summers away? ® Meanwhile, we could not get on without the misfits — at least as the Spectator views them. First...
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Book Chat, Volume 8

William George Jordan, Adr Schade van Westrum - American literature - 1893 - 348 pages
..." The Dawn," with its motto, "You are but children," the speech of the Egyptian priest to Solon. " Red of the Dawn ! Is it turning a fainter red ? so...children be, The men of a hundred thousand, a million winters away ?" There is "The Dre?mer," in which the Voice of the Earth is heard, telling all the load...
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Christ and Society

Donald Macleod - Sermons, English - 1892 - 326 pages
...human and elevating, and purifying all which it thus gathers, it hastens on " the golden year of God." "Red of the Dawn ! Is it turning" a fainter red ?...a hundred thousand, a million summers away ? " THE KING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THE KING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. "Pilate therefore saith unto him, Art thou...
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The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson: Poet Laureate

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 904 pages
...stored in the sunlight still, We are far from the noon of man, there i . time for the race to grow. Red of the Dawn ! Is it turning a fainter red? so...a thousand winters? Ah, what will our children be, Tin' men of a hundred thousand, a million summers away? THE MAKING OF MAN. WHERE is one that, bora...
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The Dial, Volume 13

Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1892 - 426 pages
...stored in the sunlight still, We are far from the noon of man, there is time for the race to grow. " Red of the Dawn ! Is it turning a fainter red '.'...shall we lay The Ghost of the Brute that is walking aud haunting un yet, and be free '* In a hundred, a thousand winters? Ah, what will our children be,...
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A Study of the Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate

Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 pages
...: the species it is that we regard. But apply the same language to man, and our attitude changes. " Ah, what will our children be, The men of a hundred thousand, a million summers away ? " the poem asks. I answer, " Oh yes ; but there's me. I do not think I was made to be merely a passing step...
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English Poetry from Blake to Browning

William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1894 - 248 pages
...stored in the sunlight still, We are far from the noon of man, there is time for the race to grow. ' Red of the dawn ! Is it turning a fainter red ? So...yet, and be free? In a hundred — a thousand winters ? Oh, what will mir children be, The men of a hundred thousand, a million summers away ? ' A different...
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English Poetry from Blake to Browning

William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1894 - 258 pages
...the brute that is walking and haunting us yet, and be free? In a hundred — a thousand winters ? Oh, what will our children be, The men of a hundred thousand, a million summers away ? ' A different gospel this from that preached by the poets of the Revolution ! the fire and flame...
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Methodist Magazine, Volume 37

Methodism - 1893 - 692 pages
...its woes. There is a pessimistic note, however, in the poet's long postponement of that better day : Red of the dawn ! Is it turning a fainter red '( So...men of a hundred thousand, a million summers away ? A more hopeful and truer prophecy of the future is that in " The Making of Man • " All about him...
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The Outlook, Volume 56

United States - 1897 - 1084 pages
...fills the world with misfits ? Was it a true presentiment of this that made Tennyson exclaim, . . . Ah, what will our children be, The men of a hundred thousand, a million summers away? @ Meanwhile, we could not get on without the misfits — at least as the Spectator views them. First...
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