 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 238 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... | |
 | Warren F. Kimball - History - 1998 - 440 pages
...Longfellow and asked Wendell Willkie to give it to Churchill: Sail on, Oh Ship of State! Sail on, Oh Union strong and great. Humanity with all its fears With all the hope of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate.24 Fittingly Churchill brought to Newfoundland... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour. 6475 'The Building of the Ship' on thy fate! 6476 'Children' Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye... | |
 | V. P. Menon - History - 1997 - 606 pages
...war, and may well be applied to India at this crisis : '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,' APPENDIX VII STATEMENT BY SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON 16 MAY 1946 You... | |
 | Helen Ruth Bass, Diane Morrill - Education - 1998 - 132 pages
...to and praises the skylark through the entire poem, but no response is expected from the skylark.) Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! from "The Building of the Ship" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Longfellow refers metaphorically to... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - Philosophy - 1999 - 330 pages
...an amount he would have needed thirteen years to earn. In 1 849 Longfellow reflected on his America: "Humanity with all its fears, / With all the hopes of future years / Is hanging breathless on your fate." A century and a half later it has become impossible to say much about the world without... | |
 | David P. Schippers, Alan P. Henry - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 366 pages
...The allusion is to the poem "The Building of the Ship" by Longfellow. Permit me to quote the stanza: Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! How sublime, poignant, and uplifting; yet how profound and sobering are those words at... | |
 | Mary Louise Kete - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 308 pages
...Howe. Hail, brothers, hail, Let nought on earth divide us. — Sigourney, "The Thriving Family," 1848 Thou too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! — Longfellow, "The Building of the Ship," 1849 It is the powerful language of resistance ... it is... | |
 | Genealogy - 1899 - 1378 pages
...are looking anxiously to the future. But the end is not yet, and we can only say, with Longfellow : "Sail on, O ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong...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,... | |
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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,... 
