 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - United States - 1865 - 480 pages
...poet must have seen in vision Sail on, sail on, 0 sliip of state! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and greatl Humanity with all its fears, With 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, nor... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - Physicians - 1865 - 594 pages
...appreciated what it would be in its development; as though they felt there was hanging on it — " Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years." The declarations of the towns, in answer to the Boston November meeting, manifested great similarity... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 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... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - Fourth of July orations - 1866 - 726 pages
...the glorious Union for a more prosperous voyage on the broad ocean of Time. "O, then, sail on, thou Ship of State! Sail on, O, Union, strong and great...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock — T is of the wave, and not the rock ; Tis but... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1866 - 174 pages
...than ever we were before. So a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all ! THE SHIP OF STATS. 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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...wave, right onward steer t 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, strong and great ! 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1867 - 482 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,...strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With al! the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel,... | |
 | Daniel Stevens Dickinson - New York (State) - 1867 - 772 pages
...bearing majestically onward, and they exclaim in the language of the poet : "Thou, too, sail on, 0 ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity with nil its fears, With all the hope of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ; We know what... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 pages
...the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State I Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with...thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel What workman wrought thy ribs of steel ; What anvils rang, what hammers beat ; Who made each mast and sail... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1868 - 522 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,...all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, fs hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid" thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs... | |
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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,... 
