| Abijah Perkins Marvin - Massachusetts - 1870 - 614 pages
...have seen in vision : — ' Sail on, sail on, O ship of state I Sail on, O Union strong and great I Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breatbiess on thy fate ; In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore,... | |
| L. U. Reavis - Saint Louis (Mo.) - 1870 - 138 pages
...of the higher and better conquest of the world ; and — "Thou, too, nail on, O Ship of State; Snil on, O Union, strong and great ; Humanity, with all its fears, With all tlio hope of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.; We know what Master laid thy keel, What... | |
| L. U. Reavis - Saint Louis (Mo.) - 1870 - 156 pages
...higher and better conquest'of the world ; and — " Thou, too, sail on, О Ship of State ; Sail on, О Union, strong and great ; Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hope of future yenrs, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. . We know what Master laid thy keel, What... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1871 - 656 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 the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate I We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workman wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
| Readers - 1872 - 514 pages
...Prevail o'er angry wave and gust ; And iu the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! 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... | |
| Albert M. Bacon - Gesture - 1872 - 294 pages
...of noble lives, bhao Something immortal still survives ! bhaf Thou too sail on, O Ship of State ! hf Sail on, O Union, strong and great ' Humanity, with all its fears, bhhobhdo With all the hopes of future years, bhao Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! bhhf We know... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 632 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,...breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, AVhat Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang,... | |
| Jonathan Periam - Agricultural societies - 1874 - 584 pages
...most enduring; for what American heart but thrills to the prayer in song of our best-loved poet— " Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! " THE GROUNDSWELL OF TO-DAY. If there be one danger of more threatening aspect than any... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...lips in misery, Longing, and yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried ! The Goblet of Life. Sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless 'on thy fate ! The Building of the Ship. Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our... | |
| Richard Frothingham - Boston (Mass.) - 1874 - 56 pages
...embodied in immortal song the feelings of that generation as they launched the ship United States ! — " Sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! 3 We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made... | |
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