 I will have never a noble. No lineage counted great; Fishers and choppers and ploughmen Shall constitute a state. Go, cut down trees in the forest And trim the straightest boughs; Cut down trees in the forest And build me a wooden house. Call the people...  How the People Rule: Civics for Boys and Girls - Page 100by Charles De Forest Hoxie - 1903 - 165 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...forest, And trim the straightcst boughs; Cut down trees in the forest, And build me a wooden house. Call the people together, The young men and the sires, The digger in the harvest-fields, Hireling, and him that hires. And here in a pine state-house They shall choose men... | |
 | American essays - 1863 - 844 pages
...forest, And trim the straightest boughs ; Cut down trees in the forest, And build me a wooden house. Call the people together, The young men and the sires,...needful faculty, In church, and state, and school. Lo, now ! if these poor men Can govern the land and sea, And make just laws below the sun, i As planets... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...forest, And build me a wooden house. Call the people together, The young men and the sires, The diggers in the harvest-field, Hireling, and him that hires...needful faculty — In Church, and State, and School. Lo, now ! if these poor men Can govern the land and sea, And make iust laws below the sun, As planets... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...And trim the strniglitcst boughs ; Cut down trees in the forest, And build mo n wooden house. Cnll the people together, The young men and the sires, The digger in the harvest-fields, Hireling, and him that hires. And here in a pine state-house They shall choose men... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1864 - 364 pages
...forest, And trim the straightest boughs; Cut down trees in the forest, And build me a wooden house. Call the people together, The young men and the sires,...needful faculty, — In church and state and school. Lo, now ! if these poor men Can govern the land and sea, And make just laws below the sun, — As planets... | |
 | Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 368 pages
...forest, And trim the straightest boughs ; Cut down trees in the forest, And build me a wooden house. Call the people together, The young men and the sires,...needful faculty, — In church and state and school. Lo, now ! if these poor men Can govern the land and sea, And make just laws below the sun, — As planets... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1867 - 226 pages
...forest, And trim the straightest boughs ; Cut down trees in the forest, And build me a wooden house. Call the people together, The young men and the sires, The digger in the harvest field, Hireling, and him that hires ; And here in a pine state-house They shall choose men... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 978 pages
...forest, And trim the straightest boughs ; Cut down trees in the forest, And build me a wooden house. Call the people together, The young men and the sires,...needful faculty, — In church and state and schooL Lo, now ! if these poor men Con govern the land and sea, And make just laws below the sun, — As planets... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...forest, And trim the straightcst boughs ; Cut down trees in the forest, And build me a wooden house. beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly 1 tile harvest-field, Hireling, and him that hires ; And here in a pine state-house They shall choose... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...forest, And trim the straightcst boughs ; Cut down trees in the forest, And build me a wooden house. Lo, now ! if these poor men Can govern the land and sea, And make just laws below the sun, As planets... | |
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