 Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...  The Gift Book of Gems - Page 21856 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...country, from sea to sea ! And let your prayer be the inspired utterance of Longfellow. " Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...suggested by it. The concluding lines will find now an echo in every patriotic heart. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - 1846 - 510 pages
...Longfellow's Poems, about to be issued from the press ; — Thou too, sail on, O ship of State ! Snil on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fnte ! « We know what master laid thy keel,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...wave and gust ; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1850 - 570 pages
...Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with ull its fears, With all the hopes of future yearn, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid" thy kucl, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each moxt, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang,... | |
 | 1851 - 792 pages
...thy goings be ! For gentleness, and love, and trust, Prevail o'er angry wave and gust. Thou too, sail on, O ship of state ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and...all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate 1 We know what master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
 | 1851 - 812 pages
...too, RHÍ! on, О »hip of state ! Sail on, О UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its tears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless...know what master laid thy keel. What workmen wrought ihy ribs of steel, Who made each mast and sail and rone, What anvils rang, what hammer* beat, In what... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...wave and gust ; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! Thou too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 610 pages
...who aided its establishment, command alike our respect, gratitude and admiration. " Thou too, sail on, O ship of State, Sail on, O Union ! strong and great ; Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hope of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what masters laid thy keel, What... | |
 | Robert Criswell - 1852 - 164 pages
...that Heaven has ordained that our Eepublic shall last ' till time shall be no" more.7 ' Sail on, sail on, O ship of state, Sail on, O Union strong and great,...Is hanging breathless on thy fate. ' We know what masters laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast and sail and rope... | |
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