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“Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!”

Source: Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform

“As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.”

Age Fall Race Watches Fingers Incarnation Headings Prostration

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

“And I have seen long fingers that would stare With fiery eyes, and then the eyes would crawl Deftly across the counterpane and fall Soundless, with a wink of mild despair.”

Long Eye Fall Despair Fingers Staring Twilight Fiery

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.”

Source: To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society