“Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round,
Till not a slave shall on this earth be found.”
Poem
Context: Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize
Man still is bound to rescue or maintain;
That nature's God commands the slave to rise,
And on the oppressor's head to break the chain.
Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round,
Till not a slave shall on this earth be found.
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John Quincy Adams 52
American politician, 6th president of the United States (in… 1767–1848Related quotes
“Roll up that map; it will not be wanted these ten years.”
Upon seeing a map of Europe in January 1806 after hearing of the Battle of Austerlitz. Quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt https://archive.org/stream/lifeofwilliampit03stan/lifeofwilliampit03stan_djvu.txt. See also the Yale Book of Quotations.
Attributed
“Rolling the ball, rolling the ball, rolling the ball to me…”
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
“Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll.”
"Brokedown Palace"
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Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)
“Roll on, thou ball, roll on
Through pathless realms of space,
Roll on!”
To the Terrestrial Globe.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
Epilogue
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
