 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...wave, right onward steer I The moistened eye, the trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt or fear. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union,...and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 562 pages
...of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of Slate ! Sail on, 0 UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears,...hanging breathless on thy fate '. We know what Master hiiil thy keel, What Work men wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 480 pages
...gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; 375 And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives! Thou, too, sail...UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, 380 With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 686 pages
...and gust ; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great...of steel. Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, WTiat anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
 | 1900 - 708 pages
...see in the near future a vast population dependent upon its resources. We can say with the poet : f " Thou, too, sail on, O ship of State ! Sail on, O Union,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate." A GEOGRAPHICAL RETROSPECT. PRESIDENT FB GAULT, WHITWORTH COLLEGE, TACOMA, WASH. ~T> ECENTLY... | |
 | Abijah Perkins Marvin - 1880 - 654 pages
...displaced, and our course is steady and unchanged. Our own poet must have seen in vision : — ' Sail on, sail on, O ship of state ! Sail on, O Union strong...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ; In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...of noble lives Something immortal still survives! Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on,.O er his face The tablet of iiuuttcrable thoughts Was...traced, — and then it faded as it came ; Aud ho mado each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - 1881 - 402 pages
...State ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know...steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What auvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat, Were shaped the anchors of thy hope.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1881 - 466 pages
...not even blunted, but rather strengthened and sharpened, by the blows it gave and received. HYPEEION. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union,...and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP. Fontenelle,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...lives Something immortal still survives! Thou, too, sail on, О Ship of State ! Sail on, О Uxiox, o servo aud sail, and rope, What auvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped... | |
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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... 
