 | 1824 - 706 pages
...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,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
 | 1850 - 664 pages
...executed, concluding with a passage of singular force and sublimity. We cannot withhold it : — " Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 UNION,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...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,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
 | 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,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fnte ! « We know what master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...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,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
 | 1850 - 618 pages
...purchased. They see the proud vessel bearing majestically onward, and they exclaim in the language of the poet : "Thou, too, sail on, 0, ship of State"! Sail...on. 0, Union, strong and great! Humanity with all ils fears, With all the hope of future years, Is banging breathless ou thy fate ; We know what master... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 644 pages
...trials of those who aided its establishment, command alike our respect, gratitude and admiration. " Thou too> sail on, 0 ship of State, Sail on, 0 Union...great ; Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hope of future years, Is hanging breathless on tliy fate ! AVe know what masters laid thy keel, What... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...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,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 610 pages
...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 workmen... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...State, and launch it upon the waters. We will exelaim, in the noble words of one of our poets : * " Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 Union,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! Wo know what Master iaid thy kecl, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of stecl, Who made each... | |
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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. 
