 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pagini
...breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance hack in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our...monster's hide. " Strike your flag ! " the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. " Never ! " our gallant Morris replies ; " It is better to sink... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pagini
...breath, From each open port. We are not idle but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our...monster's hide. " Strike your flag |" the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. " Never !" our gallant Morris replies ; "It is better to sink... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pagini
...breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our...monster's hide. "Strike your flag !" the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. "Never !" our gallant Morris replies ; " It is better to sink... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 pagini
...breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our...monster's hide. ' Strike your flag' the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. ' Never!' our gallant Morris replies ; ' It is better to sink... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pagini
...breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our...monster's hide. " Strike your flag!" the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. "Never!" our gallant Morris replies; " It is better to sink... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 pagini
...breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our...monster's hide. "Strike your flag!" the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. "Never!" our gallant Morris replies; "It is better to sink than... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales) - 1874 - 582 pagini
...breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Pefiance back in a full broadside ! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our...monster's hide. " Strike your flag !" the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. " Never ! " our gallant Morris replies ; " It is better to sink... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pagini
...breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Deliance hack in a full broadside! As hail rebounds from a roof of slate, Rebounds our...monster's hide. •'Strike your flag!" the rebel cries, In his arrogant old plantation strain. "Never!" our gallant Morris replies : "It is better to sink... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pagini
...not idle, but send her Defiance back in a full broadside! As hail rebounds from a roof of straight slate, Rebounds our heavier hail From each iron scale...monster's hide. "Strike your flag!" the rebel cries, • In his arrogant old plantation strain. "Never!" our gallant Morris replies: "It is better to sink... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pagini
...reÍjlies: t is better to sink Ihan to yield!" And the whole air [>ealed With the cheers of our men. Then, like a kraken huge and black, She crushed our...ribs iu her iron grasp ! Down went the Cumberland all a wrack, Willi a sudden shudder of death. And the cannon's breath For her dying gasp. Next mom, as... | |
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Down upon us heavily runs, Silent and sullen, the floating fort; Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns, And leaps the terrible death, With fiery breath, From each open port. We are not idle, but send her straight Defiance back in a full broadside!... 
