| Kentucky Historical Society - 1925 - 406 էջ
...That gathered with thee to the fight, But the sons will eternally keep The tablet of gratitude bright. We bow not the neck, we bend not the knee, But our hearts, Lafayette, we surrender to thee. Some time was then spent in receiving visits and marks of respect and friendship, this probably being... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1876 - 972 էջ
...Lafayette, and bearing this inscription, improvised by the poet Charles Sprague : ' We bow Dot the neck, and we bend not the knee, But our hearts, Lafayette, we surrender to the&." During his stay in Boston the Marquis de> la Fayette dined at our house, and we had much comfortable... | |
| 1920 - 668 էջ
...Lafayette. The strong and universal sentiment found expression in familiar words, repeated everywhere: "\Ve bow not the neck, We bend not the knee, But our hearts, I^afayette, We surrender to thee." It belongs to the glory of Lafayette that he inspired this sentiment,... | |
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