 | 1899 - 1378 pages
...But the end is not yet, and we can only say, with Longfellow : "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; Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 2001 - 116 pages
...wreck ot 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 Workmen... | |
 | Nancy Beck Young, William D. Pederson, Byron W. Daynes - 2001 - 164 pages
...his inaugural medals, and sent it along to Winston Churchill: 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! 22 Other representations of Roosevelt as... | |
 | Eliot Clarke - 2003 - 290 pages
...poems were as effective in stirring patriotic emotions: 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! Emerson, philosopher, Transcendental leader,... | |
 | Meghan Fitzmaurice - 2006 - 122 pages
...is weighing in the balance. "Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!," Longfellow writes. "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 "WHITE LONGFELLOW" But for a time,... | |
 | Jonathan Foreman - 2005 - 112 pages
...ABROAD 2849 Longfellow's "The Building of the Ship": "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!" 1849 Anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant "Know-Nothing"... | |
 | Charles C. Calhoun - 2005 - 356 pages
...a stanza that begins with these much-quoted lines: 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! Longfellow's work of the 1850s rarely strikes... | |
 | Wilson C. McWilliams - 2006 - 366 pages
...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "O Ship of State": 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 Workmen... | |
 | M. B. Synge - 2013 - 265 pages
...of a yet greater future. 18. CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. " Thou too sail on ! 0 Ship of State 1 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 ! " —LONGFELLOW. WHILE Italy was claiming... | |
 | William Sloane Coffin - 2008 - 630 pages
...Churchill sent Roosevelt a telegram quoting 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! OOJ But thirty-odd years later, no one sends... | |
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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. 
