 | Theology - 1874 - 404 pages
...and goodly ship, hearing her precious freightage of humanity across the deeps of time, exclaim : — 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 I We know what Master laid thy keel ;... | |
 | Jonathan Periam - Agricultural societies - 1874 - 580 pages
...to the prayer in song of our best-loved poet — "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 ! " THE GROUNDSWELL OF TO-DAY. If there be one danger of more threatening aspect than any... | |
 | mrs. Granville Ryder - 1874 - 108 pages
...All gently to refresh the thirsty cave.' 2. ' Where dwelt Calypso, dreadful in her charms.' 3. ' ' Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.' 4. ' Clamber up the crumbling stair, Trip along a narrow wall, Where the sudden rattling... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! Tht Ladder of St. Augustine. Sail on, O Ship of State 1 Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! T/ie Building of the Sfiip. Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1875 - 558 pages
...language ; nine monosyllabic lines out of twenty-two. Blessings be on him who wrote this address ! " 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... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...an abrupt kind of bark or cough with the full strength of the lungs. Then select any sentence; as, Thou too, sail on! O Ship of State! Sail on! O Union, strong and great! and practice its repetition in all varieties of modulation. It will bo found that these varied exercises... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - Readers - 1875 - 252 pages
...Forbid it, Heaven ! JUDGE STORY. LESSON XLVIII. THE SHIP OF STATE. too, sail on, O Ship of State! J_ 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 ! 2. We know what masters laid thy keel,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE SHIP OF STATE. THOU too sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, stvong and great! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future' years Is hanging breathless... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1876 - 454 pages
...of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great! Humanity, with all its fears,...! We know what Master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought^thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast and sail and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat,... | |
 | William H. Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 436 pages
...suffered to fall in weakness. Its close was a burst of patriotic fervor, ending with the lines : " 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 Providence Journal referred to the speech the next morning, at some length, and... | |
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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,... 
