William Ross Wallace è stato un poeta statunitense, con origini scozzesi, generalmente noto per aver scritto la poesia "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is the Hand That Rules the World" .
Fu autore, tra gli altri, di un romanzo in versi, "Alban the Pirate" , e di due raccolte di poesie intensamente patriottiche e ai suoi tempi molto famose: "Meditations in America" e "The Liberty Bell" .
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“They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea”
What rules the World? (also known by The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World) reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919).
Contesto: They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea;
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers than he;
But a mighty power and stronger,
Man from his throne hath hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
What rules the World? (also known by The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World) reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919).
Contesto: They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea;
He wields a mighty scepter
O'er lesser powers than he;
But a mighty power and stronger,
Man from his throne hath hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
