 | 1900 - 708 pages
...see in the near future a vast population dependent upon its resources. We can say with the poet : f " Thou, too, sail on, O ship of State ! Sail on, O Union,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate." A GEOGRAPHICAL RETROSPECT. PRESIDENT FB GAULT, WHITWORTH COLLEGE, TACOMA, WASH. ~T> ECENTLY... | |
 | Abijah Perkins Marvin - 1880 - 654 pages
...displaced, and our course is steady and unchanged. Our own poet must have seen in vision : — ' Sail on, sail on, O ship of state ! Sail on, O Union strong...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ; In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...of noble lives Something immortal still survives! Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on,.O er his face The tablet of iiuuttcrable thoughts Was...traced, — and then it faded as it came ; Aud ho mado each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a... | |
 | S. S. Hamill - 1881 - 402 pages
...State ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know...steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What auvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat, Were shaped the anchors of thy hope.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1881 - 466 pages
...not even blunted, but rather strengthened and sharpened, by the blows it gave and received. HYPEEION. 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 ! THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP. Fontenelle,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...lives Something immortal still survives! Thou, too, sail on, О Ship of State ! Sail on, О Uxiox, o servo aud sail, and rope, What auvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 pages
...lives. What figure ? Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State I 120 Bail on, O UNION strong and great 1 Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of...breathless on thy fate. We know what master laid thy keel ; 125 What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel ; Who made each mast and sail and rope ; What anvils rang,... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee, are all with thee. q. LONGFELLOW — The JluMimj of the Ship. hless way, And ID hanging breathless on thy fate! r. LONGFELLOW— The Building of the Ship. Sweet the memory is to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 pages
...shout, prolonged and loud, That to the ocean seemed to say, — " Take her, O bridegroom, old and gray, Take her to thy protecting arms, With all her youth...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 320 pages
..." How beautiful she is ! How fair She lies within those arms, that press Her form with many a sott caress Of tenderness and watchful care ! Sail forth...wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, aud rope. What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors... | |
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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! 
