| 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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 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 I Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
| Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1102 pages
...Issued by the 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... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...wave, right onward steer t The moistened eye, the trembling lip, Are not the signs of doubt or fear. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest... | |
| Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...an abrupt kind of bark or cough with the full strength of the lungs. Then select any sentence; as, Thou too, sail on! O Ship of State! Sail on! O Union, strong and great! and practice its repetition in all varieties of modulation. It will bo found that these varied exercises... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE SHIP OF STATE. THOU too sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, stvong and great! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future' years Is hanging breathless... | |
| William H. Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 448 pages
...suffered to fall in weakness. Its close was a burst of patriotic fervor, ending with the lines : " Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Hurmnity, with all Us fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fa'.e!... | |
| George Washington Greene - United States - 1876 - 520 pages
...hope sure, and repeating to ourselves and to each other the inspiring words of our great poet : — " Sail on, O ship of state ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great 1 Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
| Frank Honywell Fenno - 1878 - 426 pages
...expressing grandeur, awe, sublimity, courage, reverence, veneration and other ho/y emotions. EXAMPLES. 1. Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! 2. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers^ whence are thy beams, O Sun, thy... | |
| Textbooks - 1878 - 254 pages
...NOT? Forbid it, my countrymen ! Forbid it, Heaven 1 JUDGE STOBY. LESSON XLYIII. THE SHIP OF STATE. THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great I Humanity with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate... | |
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