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HAMMER IN SONGS & LITERATURE
Ode to a Hammer
Here's how the bards have treated the subject of
hammers down through the ages - a poetry of steel
What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
The Tiger by William Blake, 1757-1827
When you are an anvil, hold you still;
when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
Jacula Prudentum, by George Herbert, 1593-1633
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard,
but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
Man and Superman, by George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother.
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can't be bought.
The People Will Live On, by Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967
The motive for metaphor, shrinking from
The weight of primary noon,
The ABC of being.
The ruddy temper, the hammer
Of red and blue, the hard sound -
Steel against intimation - the sharp flash,
The vital, arrogant, fatal, dominant X.
The Motive for Metaphor, by Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955
John Henry told his captain.
Says, "A man ain't nothin' but a man,
And before I'd let you steam drill beat me down, Lord,
I'd die with this hammer in my hand.
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