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" When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea! "
New National First [-fifth] Reader - Page 338
by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pages
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The Book of Oratory: A New Collection of Extracts in Prose, Poetry and ...

1856 - 518 pages
...tread, Or know the conquered knee ; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! Oh ! better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath...Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should o'e her grave : Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...the eagle of the sea ' O, better tint her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave ! Her thundes shook the mighty deep, and there should be her grave ! Nail to the nast her holy flag, set every threadbare sail, And give he to the god of storms, — the lightning...
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Progressive Readers: A Class Book for the Use of Advanced Pupils ..., Issue 5

John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pages
...battle-shoot, And burst the cannon's roar; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no morel Oil, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty aeajn. TERV SOFT FORCE. [FROM TEXSTSON'S NEW YKAR'S EVE.] You'll burj me, my mother, just beneath the...
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The Land We Love, Volumes 1-2

1866 - 950 pages
...lotice,-*. т.-, (¡rely applicable to our own loved ihR. The third verso is peculiarly fine. О better (hat her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders .shook the mighty deep, Anil there should be hrr grave : Nail to Ihc mast her holv tlujz. Het every threadbare sail, Anil give...
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Analytical Fifth Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 374 pages
...more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee ; The harpies of the shore shall pluck O, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath...shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave 1 Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The...
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The Jewels of Virginia: A Lecture, Delivered by Invitation of ..., Volume 430

George Wythe Munford - 1867 - 60 pages
...for service, they refused to permit her to be broken up, and every one exclaimed with the poet : 0, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath...shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave." And, alas! if the government had continued to respect the instrument as they did the emblem ; if they...
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The Americans at Home: Pen-and-ink Sketches of American Men ..., Volume 2

David Macrae - 1870 - 428 pages
...see That banner in the sky." And so on to the grandest verse of all— " O better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook...there should be her grave. " Nail to the mast her tatter'd flag. Set every threadbare sail ; And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...tread, Or know the conquered knee : The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! Oh ! better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath...there should be her grave. Nail to the mast her holy flan; ; Set every threadbare sail ; And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale 1...
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A Manual of American Literature: Designed for the Use of Schools of Advanced ...

Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 pages
...shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle, of the sea ! O better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunder shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every...
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A Manual of American Literature: Designed for the Use of Schools of Advanced ...

Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 pages
...the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eaglo of the sea! O better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunder shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every...
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