 | 1876 - 732 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,...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... | |
 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 714 pages
...are but free. CHORUS — In freedom we're born, etc. THE SHIP OF STATE.* I. Sail on, sail on, thou ship of state, Sail on, O ! Union, strong and great ; Humanity, with all its fears, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. We know what master laid thy keel, What workman wrought thy ribs... | |
 | William H. Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 448 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, strong and great! Hurmnity, with all Us fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fa'.e!... | |
 | George Washington Greene - United States - 1876 - 520 pages
...hope sure, and repeating to ourselves and to each other the inspiring words of our great poet : — " Sail on, O ship of state ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great 1 Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
 | Roxbury, Mass - Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) - 1877 - 138 pages
...marching in accord and harmony with the patriotic utterances of our own great poet, when he sings : — " 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 spar, and rope. What anvils rang, what hammers... | |
 | John F. Aiken - Europe - 1877 - 176 pages
...in itself a joy to see, When Fancy whispered in my ear, That torch they pass is Liberty ! " MOORE. - Thou, too, sail on, O ship of State ! Sail on, O Union,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee. Our hearts,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...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,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate I We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - Elocution - 1877 - 108 pages
...Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, like eagles in the sun, With bloody plumes the Irish stand: the field is 2. 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1877 - 894 pages
...our duties as citizens, then we can say in the beautiful words of Longfellow — " Thou, too, Bail on, O ship of State. Sail on, O Union, strong and great. Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, la hanging breathless on thy fate. We know what maater laid thy keel, What... | |
 | John F. Aiken - Europe - 1877 - 176 pages
...in my ear, That torch they pass is Liberty ! " • Thou, too, sail on, O 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! Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! MOORE. Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.... | |
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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,... 
