 | Parodies - 1813 - 410 pages
...Reef in the foresail, there! Hold the helm fast! So,—let the vessel wear,— There swept the blast. What of the night, watchman? What of the night? "Cloudy, all quiet,— No land yet,—all's right." Be wakeful, be vigilant,— Danger may be At an hour when all seemeth Securest... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...blast. What of the night, watchman ? What of the night? "Cloudy, all quist, — No land yet, — all's right." Be wakeful, be vigilant, — Danger may be...to thee. How! gains the leak so fast? Clear out the hold, — Hoist up thy merchandise, Heave out thy gold ; There, let the ingots go; — Now the ship... | |
 | 1839 - 798 pages
...watchman 1 What of the night 1 ' Cloudy— all quiet — No land yet— all's right !' Be watchful, be vigilant ; Danger may be At an hour when all seemeth Securest to thee. How! gains the leak so fasti Clear out the hold ; Hoist up thy merchandise, Heave out thy gold. There — let the ingots go... | |
 | Caroline Anne Southey - 1839 - 256 pages
...the foresail, there ! Hold the helm fast ! So — let the vessel wear — There swept the blast. " What of the night, watchman ? What of the night?" " Cloudy — all quiet — No land yet — all's right ! " Be wakeful, be vigilant — Danger may be At an hour when all seemeth Securest... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...blast. " What of the night, watchman ? What of the night?" " Cloudy— all quietNo land yet— all's right." Be wakeful, be vigilant — Danger may be...seemeth Securest to thee. How ! gains the leak so fast ? Clean out the hold — Hoist up thy merchandise, Heave out thy gold ; — There — let the ingots... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...fore'-sail, there, ! | Hold the helm' fast! \ So, — | let the vessel ware' — | There swept the blas^. | What of the night, watch'man? | What of the night'...quiet — | No land' yet — | all 's right,.' | Be wake-fill, | be vig'ilant — | Danger may be , | At an hour when all seemeth , | Secu'rest to thee.... | |
 | 1842 - 514 pages
...MAGAZINE. "What of the night, watchman? What of the night ?" "Cloudy— all quietNo land yet — all's right." Be wakeful, be vigilant; Danger may be At...seemeth Securest to thee. How gains the leak so fast? Clean out the hold — Hoist up thy merchandize, Heave out thy gold ; — There — let the ingots... | |
 | Church missionary society - 162 pages
...What of the night, watchman 1 What of the night I "Cloudy — all quiet — no land yet in sight." Be wakeful, be vigilant, danger may be At an hour when all seems securest to thee. How — gains the leak so fast ? Clear out the hold ; Hoist up thy merchandize... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...Reef in the foresail, then ! Hold the helm fast ! So ! let the vessel wear — There swept the blast. What of the night, watchman ? What of the night ? "Cloudy — all quiet — No land yet— all's right." Be watchful, be vigilant ; Danger may be At an hour when all seems Securest to thee.... | |
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Breakers are round thee ; Let fall the plummet now, Shallows may ground thee. Reef in the foresail, there, — Hold the helm fast ; So — let the vessel wear ; There swept the blast. " What of the night, watchman ? What of the night? 
