 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail. And give her to the god of storms — The lightning and the gale ! CXX. — CHARACTER OF LAFAYETTE. ADAMS. [JOHN QtnxoY ADAMS was born In Braintroc, Massachusetts,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1864 - 444 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave ; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale ! m. WHEN florid Peace resumed her golden reign, And arts revived, and valleys bloomed again ; While... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And" give her to the god of storms, The lightning, and the gale! 0f Ia-aUiarta at toitorfahi. WE now turn to an event whose sudden and astounding results caused the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...to see That bauner in the sky. Ibid. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms, The lightning and the gale. A Metrical Essag. Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure, He who ordained the Sabbath loves... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1866 - 628 pages
...power that God has given me, to ' Spread all her canvas to the breeze, Set every threadbare sail. And give her to the God of storms, The lightning and the gale.' " But these cautious men were overborne by the fiery zealots. One of these (Mulling, from Marion),... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1866 - 174 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave ! Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms — The lightning and the gale ! THE WASP AND THE BEE. A WASP met a bee that was just buzzing by, And he said, "Little cousin, can... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 492 pages
...deep, Anil them should he her grave ; Nail to Mi« mast IHM- holv flag, Sot every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms, The lightning and the gale! " The lament of Brother Jonathan for Sister Caroline," written when SC seceded, has been much admired.... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 374 pages
...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 lightning and the gale ! III.— NORTHERN LABORERS. HENRY WILSON. A South Carolina member of the United States Senate, Mr.... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave! Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale I IIL—NORTHERN LABORERS. HENRY WILSON. A South Carolina member of the United States Senate, Mr. Hammond,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Art - 1867 - 660 pages
...deep, And there should be her grave ; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, — The lightning and the gale ! ' " Among the other best-known pictures of Hamilton are " An Egyptian Sunset," " Wrecked Hopes,"... | |
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Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave! Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave: Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning, and the gale! 
