 | John Holland - 1843 - 402 pages
...Version of the same Psalm by Dr. Watts, which he has entitled " A Song for the Fifth of November !" PSALM CXXIV. If God himself had not been on our side,...us, we had been destroy'd, They were so wrathfully displeased at us ; The stream had overwhelm'd us, the proud waves Had gone e'en o'er us. Praised be... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...it cost Them is their secret. In the sperm-whale's slick I see the Quakers drown and hear their cry: "If God himself had not been on our side, If God himself had not been on our side, When the Atlantic rose against us, why, Then it had swallowed us up quick." IV This is... | |
 | William Galvani - 1999 - 236 pages
...Ahab's void and forehead. . . ROBERT LOWELL from the poem "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket', 1946 If God himself had not been on our side, If God himself had not been on our side, When the Atlantic rose against us, why, Then it had swallowed us up quick. ROBERT LOWELL... | |
 | George Thaddeus Wright - 2001 - 348 pages
...the flies, the flies" (LWC, 47), "yuck-a, yuck-a, yuck-a, yuck-a" (Mills, 25), and, most tellingly, "If God himself had not been on our side, / If God himself had not been on our side" (LWC, 10), and "Cut your own throat. Cut your own throat. Now! Now!" (LWC, 61). This almost... | |
 | Edward Brunner - 2001 - 330 pages
...(among other things) a critique of the Protestant Ethic: I see the Quakers drown and hear their cry: "If God himself had not been on our side, If God himself had not been on our side, When the Atlantic rose against us, why, Then it had swallowed us quick." ("Quaker" 171)... | |
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If God himself had not been on our side, If God himself had not been on our side, When the Atlantic rose against us, why, Then it had swallowed us up quick. 