 | England - 1851 - 786 pages
...goings be ! For gentleness, and love, and trust, Prevail o'er angry wave and gust. Thou too, sail on, 0 ship of 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 what master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...Republican or Democrat ; but every one will feel he is an American, with this prayer deep in his heart : " Sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and grout I In spite of rook and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 610 pages
...those who aided its establishment, command alike our respect, gratitude and admiration. " Thou too, sail on, O ship of State, Sail on, O Union ! strong...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... | |
 | England - 1851 - 792 pages
...and thy goings be ! For gentleness, and love, and trust, Prevail o'er angry wave and gust. Thou too, sail on, O ship of 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 1 We know what master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | Robert Criswell - Slavery - 1852 - 164 pages
...trust that Heaven has ordained that our Eepublic shall last ' till time shall be no" more.7 ' Sail on, sail on, O ship of 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 what masters laid thy keel,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...angry wave and gust; And in the wreck 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, "VVith all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy... | |
 | American poetry - 1856 - 352 pages
...RHTMES— Edward P. Wcston, 805 TUE SHORES OF MAINE— Isaac McLcllan, 307 SHIP OF STATE. Thou, too, sall on, O Ship of 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 what Master laid thy keel, What... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...angry wave and gust! And in the wreck of noble lives Something 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...upon the waters. We will exclaim, in the noble words of one of our poets : * " Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity with all it." lean, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1102 pages
...Loyal National League at the Sitmter Mass Meeting, April 11, 1863, at Union? Square. \ — 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, la hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
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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 its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel. 
