 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1106 pages
...south, And let them grapple : 0 ! the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare ! By Heaven, t, And one day, as his lions fought, sat looking on the court. pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,... | |
 | 1915 - 844 pages
...authority he used to revereuce, confident of a sanction higher thau the authority of man : — "By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honor from the palefaced moon. Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,... | |
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By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks; So he that doth redeem her thence might... 
