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. Washington in Lincoln's Time - Page 279by Noah Brooks - 1895 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!... | |
| American periodicals - 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, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...Prevail o'er 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, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
| John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 610 pages
...trials of 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 and great ; Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hope of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!... | |
| England - 1851 - 792 pages
...comings 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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...Prevail o'er 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, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...Prevail o'er 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, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
| 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.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...Prevail o'er 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, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
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