 | England - 1851 - 786 pages
...goings be ! For gentleness, and love, and trust, Prevail o'er angry wave and gust. Thou too, sail on, 0 ship of 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 what master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...Republican or Democrat ; but every one will feel he is an American, with this prayer deep in his heart : " Sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and grout I In spite of rook and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear... | |
 | Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - African Americans - 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...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 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,... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 610 pages
...trials of those who aided its establishment, command alike our respect, gratitude and admiration. " Thou too, sail on, O ship of State, Sail on, O Union...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... | |
 | England - 1851 - 792 pages
...comings and 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,...and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate 1 We know what master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 644 pages
...command alike our respect, gratitude and admiration. " Thou too> sail on, 0 ship of State, Sail on, 0 Union ! strong and 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 - American poetry - 1852 - 256 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,...thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workman wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers... | |
 | Robert Criswell - Slavery - 1852 - 164 pages
...trust 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, Humanity with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. ' We know what masters laid thy keel,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...exelaim, in the noble words of one of our poets : * " Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears,...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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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 Workman wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast and sail and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat,... 
