...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts — she moves — she seems to feel The...ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps intc the ocean's arms! And lo! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and loud, That...

...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The...arms. And lo! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and loud, That to the ocean seemed to say, — "Take her, О bridegroom, old and gray,...

...ways, she is not merely floated — she is born. As Longfellow says so well in his epic:* She start*, she moves, she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel. When her crew goes aboard, her nerves commence to function; when her machinery is started, her muscles...

...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The...exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms." I am not raising the point as to which should be accounted the better poet, believing, as Longfellow...

...increasing their participation. (Continued on page 23) DESTROYER McCALL LAUNCHED And see! she stirs! She starts — she moves — she seems to feel The...exulting, joyous bound. She leaps into the ocean's arms! nPORPEDO-BOAT destroyer No. 400, the USS McCall, was launched on November 20th, 1937, at the Bethlehem...

...she'll come! she'll come!/ Maryland, my Maryland! — " lines comically reminiscent of Longfellow's "She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel/...joyous bound,/ She leaps into the ocean's arms!"). JW Davidson noted in his Living Writers of the South (New York, 1869) that Confederate soldiers were...

...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts, — she moves,— she seems to feel The...arms! And lo! from the assembled crowd There rose a shout, prolonged and loud, That to the ocean seemed to say, "Take her, O bridegroom, old and gray,...

...we had memorized stanzas from Longfellow's poem "The Building of the Ship." I remembered the words: She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The...exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms! LOUIS D. RUBIN, JR. While it was true that our boat had no keel, I decided that the general principle...

...below, The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts — she moves — she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel. Not bad for a poet, moss or no moss. Once Richard Henry Dana, who wrote Two Years Before the Mast,...

...we had memorized stanzas from Longfellow's poem "The Building of the Ship." I remembered its words: She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And spuming with her foot the ground. With one exulting, joyous bound. She leaps into the ocean 's arms!...