 | 1851 - 786 pages
...state ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know...sound and shock ! Tis of the wave, and not the rock ; Tis bnt the flapping of the sail And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest roar,... | |
 | 1850 - 664 pages
...force and sublimity. We cannot withhold it : — " Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 UNION, strong and great ! Humanity 'with all its fears,...sound and shock, Tis of the wave and not the rock ; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest-roar.... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...could have been 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,...of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, T is of the wave and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale... | |
 | Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - 1846 - 510 pages
...what master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mnst, each sail, each rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what...of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock 'T is of the wave, and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...Prevail o'er angry 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,...of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'T is of the wave and not the rock ; 'T is but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the... | |
 | 1850 - 818 pages
...Master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and ropo, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge...of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, Т is of the wave and not the rock ; Т is but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...Prevail o'er angry 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,...sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock • 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's... | |
 | 1851 - 856 pages
...! Sail on, Ú UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know...sound and shock ! Tis of the wave, and not the rock ; "1'is but the napping of the sail And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...state ! Sail on, О UNION, strong and great! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know...sound and shock ! 'Tis of the wave, and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail And not a rent make by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest... | |
 | 1851 - 812 pages
...beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchor* of thy hope ! !.•'<••• г ma each sudden sound and shock ! 'Tis of the wave, and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest... | |
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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 Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils... 
