ANVIL

Related Subjects: Blacksmith

1. Hammer away, ye hostile hands, Your hammers break, God's anvil
   stands.—SAMUEL V. COLE, Hammer and Anvil

2. When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer strike your fill.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum

3. 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.—CARL SANDBURG, Prayers of Steel