| England - 1851 - 786 pages
...comings and thy 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,...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... | |
| Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - African Americans - 1846 - 510 pages
...Longfellow's Poems, about to be issued from the press ; — Thou too, sail on, O ship of State ! Snil on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fnte ! « We know what master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made... | |
| United States - 1850 - 622 pages
...They see the proud vessel bearing majestically onward, and they exclaim in the language of the poet : "Thou, too. sail on, 0, ship of State! Sail on. O. Union, strong und great! Humanity with all ils t'eiira, With all the hope of future years, Is hanging breathless... | |
| John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 610 pages
...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! We know what masters laid thy keel, What workmen... | |
| England - 1851 - 792 pages
...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... | |
| John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 644 pages
...command alike our respect, gratitude and admiration. " Thou too> sail on, 0 ship of State, Sail on, 0 Union ! strong and great ; Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hope of future years, Is hanging breathless on tliy fate ! AVe know what masters laid thy keel, What... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...exelaim, in the noble words of one of our poets : * " Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! Wo know what Master iaid thy kecl, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of stecl, Who made each... | |
| Robert Criswell - Slavery - 1852 - 164 pages
...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,... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...exclaim, in the uoble words of one of our poets : * '"Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Ia hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1853 - 678 pages
...bounds upon the flood. " Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State, Sail on, 0 Union, strong aud great 1 Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate I We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workman wrought thy ribs of steel. Who made each... | |
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