 | Richard Marius - 1994 - 592 pages
...unbind the captive So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. Oh North! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South! for his shame; Nevada! coin thy golden crags... | |
 | John Carlos Rowe - 1997 - 326 pages
...confidence that gave a thrill of emphasis to his words, especially the celebrated eighteenth stanza: Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim....the owner? The slave is owner And ever was. Pay him, . . . .With the last stanza the crowd, among which mingled former slaves, rose to its feet, shouting... | |
 | Christopher Newfield - 1996 - 292 pages
...Jubilee celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation, Emerson wrote a "Boston Hymn" which read, in part: Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim....owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. 17 Emancipation meant emancipation into self-ownership. Slavery stole the property that is the slave's... | |
 | Christopher Newfield - 1996 - 294 pages
...Jubilee celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation, Emerson wrote a "Boston Hymn" which read, in part: Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim....is the owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.1" Emancipation meant emancipation into self-ownership. Slavery stole the property that is the... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pages
...the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound! Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim....owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. (stanzas 15-18; W,y. 203-4) God speaks here in the voice of the Emersonian Poet, whose task is to liberate... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...lose upon emancipation. Now, Emerson forcefully assumes the voice of God, whom he quotes, to command: Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. Finally, later in 1863, Emerson wrote his most frequently anthologized political poem, "Voluntaries,"... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pages
...read in the Music Hall on the day of Emancipation, 1 January 1863, he urged his fellow-citizens to "Pay ransom to the owner / And fill the bag to the brim." But the slaveowner is not the one to be compensated: "Who is the owner? The slave is owner, / And ever... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - 2007 - 264 pages
...the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound! Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim....owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South! for his shame; Nevada! coin thy golden crags... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 2004 - 457 pages
...1868, when the settlement was taking place in a different currency,—in steel and not in gold: — " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay Mai," His sympathies were aE and always with freedom. He spoke with indignation of the outrage on Sumner;... | |
 | J. D. McClatchy - 2005 - 240 pages
...the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South! for his shame; Nevada! coin thy golden crags... | |
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Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. 
