| 1824 - 706 pages
...your prayer be the inspired utterance of Longfellow. " Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! 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 Workmen wrought thy ribs... | |
| 1850 - 664 pages
...of singular force and sublimity. We cannot withhold it : — " Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 UNION, strong and great ! 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 Workmen wrought thy ribs... | |
| 1850 - 642 pages
...lines will find now an echo in every patriotic heart. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! 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 Workmen wrought thy ribs... | |
| Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - 1846 - 510 pages
...Longfellow's Poems, about to be issued from the press ; — Thou too, sail on, O ship of State ! Snil on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fnte ! « We know what master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...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 all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...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 all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs... | |
| John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 610 pages
...command alike our respect, gratitude and admiration. " Thou too, sail on, O ship of State, Sail on, O Union ! strong and great ; Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hope of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what masters laid thy keel, What workmen... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...We will exclaim, in the noble words of one of our poets : * " Then, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great ! 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 Workmen wrought thy ribs... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...We will exclaim, in the uoble words of one of our poets : * '"Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great ! Humanity with...all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Ia hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...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 all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workman wrought thy ribs... | |
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