 | George Lewis Prentiss - Lawyers - 1855 - 598 pages
...this chapter better concluded, than by citing the well-known lines of another gifted son of Portland : Thou, too, sail on, 0 ship of state ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great I Humanity with all its tears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...Prevail o'er angry wave and gust ; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 UNION,...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... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...waters. We will exclaim, in the words of one of our poets : — " 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, Js hanging hreathless on thy fate 1 " 6. To A WATEBFOWL. — WC Bryant. Whither, midst falling dew,... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1856 - 200 pages
...prayer in the hour when the wicked assail us. Let us repeat it now, and say, "0 Father, forgive them!" Thou, too, sail on, 0 ship of State ! Sail on, 0 UNION, strong and great ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, ' Tis of the wave, and not the rock. Sail on, nor fear to breast... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...immortal still survives ! Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great I 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...wave, right onward steer ! The moistened eye, tho trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt or fear. 4. Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State, Sail on, 0 UNION,...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...The moistened eye, the trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt or fear. It Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State, Sail on, 0 UNION, strong and great!...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 c-aeh... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 164 pages
...to thee, Fear not ! but trust in Providence, Wherever thou mayest be." TH BAYLY. THE AMERICAN UNION. THOU, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 Union,...and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | Harriet Burn McKeever - American poetry - 1857 - 272 pages
...our leader, ah ! be of good cheer, Tho' hosts should assail us, we've nothing to fear. Union, 1050. " Thou too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great!" LONGFELLOW. GOD speed our noble Ship of State, And shield her from the storm, Which 'beats so wildly... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Church work with men - 1857 - 156 pages
...the dove of loving peace, the olivebranch of hope, the pledges of liberty and of a .renovated earth. Thou too sail on, 0 ship of State, Sail on, 0 Union strong and groat! Humanity — with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years — Is hanging breathless... | |
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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. 
