...for the benefit of our readers) with the remark : " He was a true philosopher who said, ' Let me make the songs Of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.' " His Eminence, however, could hardly have foreseen that Longfellow's poetry would ere long be used...

...the men around their camp-fires with your songs, remembering that a great man said, " Let me but make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." Calling me back, he said it would be necessary to procure a pass at the Provost-Marshal's, on Twentyfirst...

...coming find a poor heart dead. Mrs. CA Rilty. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. HOPE AND FRUITION, ' " Write me the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws," has passed into a proverb. Perhaps no better illustration of the way a people reveal their life through...

...water-course. Mary E. Nealy. Home Amusements, writer has said, with a smile A CELEBRATED " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." And the Jesuits assert that if they have the entire control of a child for the first seven years of...

...Gospel. I went to him and told him the thought. I mentioned the remark of one who said, " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." I instanced a case at hand then and there, in which his song, in five minutes, had effected more than...

...England what Goethe is to the peasant of Germany. He was a true philosopher who said, ' Let me make the songs of a Nation and I care not who makes its laws/ There is one writer who approaches nearer than any other to this standard ; and he has already gained...

...heart, with its tender, refining, and saving influence ! Well might old Fletcher say, " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." Sometimes we got into controversies — not on politics, for we never saw newspapers nor heard politicians...

...and honors. In those days, the bards might well have said, in the words of Fletcher, " Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." The Grecian mythology, with all its beautiful and graceful traditions, did not furnish a finer field...

...conceive of no more honorable or exalted ambition than that of being a good song-writer. Somebody has said, "Let me write the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." Parenthetically I may here remark, that I hoped to finish this series of sketches without using that...

...England, what Goethe is to the peasant of Germany. It was a true philosopher who said, ' Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws.' There is one writer who approaches nearer than any other to this standard, and has already gained such...