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 338by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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