• Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

  Source: Prayers of Steel (1920)

  Carl Sandburg
  American Poet 1878-1967
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. foundations
2. loosen
3. walls

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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. by : Carl Sandburg

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