 | 1851 - 786 pages
...state ! 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 ! We know...ribs of steel, Who made each mast and sail and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat . Were shaped the anchors of... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...undivided country, from sea to sea ! And let your prayer be the inspired utterance of Longfellow. " Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union,...of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
 | 1850 - 664 pages
...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,...ribs of steel, Who made each mast and sail and rope, What anvils rang. what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat, Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...could have been suggested by it. The concluding lines will find now an echo in every patriotic heart. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION,...of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...joy and not of fear ! " Then the Master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand ; And at the word, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she...of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...seemed to say, — " Take her, O bridegroom, old and gray, Take her to thy protecting arms, With ajl her youth and all her charms ! " How beautiful she...of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
 | 1851 - 856 pages
...! Sail on, Ú UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know...ribs of steel, Who made each mast and sail and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...state ! Sail on, О UNION, strong and great! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know...ribs of steel, Who made each mast and sail and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...moistened eye, the trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt or fear. Sail forth into tho sea of Hie, O gentle, loving, trusting wife. And safe from all...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...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,...of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
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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 of steel, Who... 
