 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 made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils...  The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow ... - Page 155edited by - 1905 - 713 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 pages
...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...anvils rang, what hammers beat ; In what a forge and ,vhat a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope. Fear not each sudden sound and shock ; 'Tis of the... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1870 - 636 pages
...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...not the rock ; 'T is but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale. In spite of rock and tempest roar, In spite of false lights on tho... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1870 - 416 pages
...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...of thy hope. "Fear not each sudden sound and shock ; "Pis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 pages
...fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each inast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers...not the rock ; 'T is but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale. In spite of rock and tempest roar, In spite of false lights on the... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 pages
...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...hammers beat, In what a forge and what .a heat Were forged the anchors of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock — "Pis of the wave, and not... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - 1870 - 156 pages
...future yenrs, 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...of thy hope. Fear not each sudden sound and shock — 'Tis of the wave, and not the rock, 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...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...of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock j 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1871 - 410 pages
...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...'T is of the wave, and not the rock ; 'T is but the napping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest-roar, fri spite... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1872 - 324 pages
...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...not the rock ; 'T is but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock, and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on... | |
 | 1872 - 660 pages
...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...of thy hope. Fear not each sudden sound and shock : 'Tis of the wave, and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the... | |
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