 | L. U. Reavis - 1870 - 138 pages
...made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat. In what a forgo, and wh.it a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope. Fear not each sudden sound and shock — 'Tis of the wave, and not the rock, 'Tis but the flapping of the sail. And not a rent made by the... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1920 - 284 pages
...wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors...of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale... | |
 | 1922 - 594 pages
...wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors...of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale!... | |
 | Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan - 1977 - 620 pages
...wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat, Were shaped the anchors...of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale.... | |
 | 1982 - 348 pages
...thy ribs of steel , Who made each mast , and sail , and rope , What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors...of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, Here's to the red of it: There's... | |
 | Daniel Aaron - 1987 - 430 pages
...thy ribs of steel,/ Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,/ What anvils rang, what hammers beat,/ In what a forge and what a heat/ Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!") Emerson's hymn and Longfellow's patriotic prophecy expressed the afflatus of "Young America" still... | |
 | Robert S. Levine, Robert Steven Levine - 1989 - 328 pages
...precarious situation. Thus while Longfellow's "Ship," much reprinted during the 1850s, advised its readers, "Fear not each sudden sound and shock, / 'T is of...not the rock; / T is but the flapping of the sail, / And not a rent made by the gale, " Theodore Parker, in language typical of the compromise's dissenters,... | |
 | Richard Marius - 1994 - 592 pages
...wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors...and not the rock; T is but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1996 - 324 pages
...wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors...of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale!... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 2001 - 116 pages
...wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope. What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors...not the rock; 'T is but the flapping of the sail, 85 And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on... | |
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We know what Master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! 
