 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 ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who...  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 160by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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,...thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers... | |
 | Baptists - 1850 - 664 pages
...force and sublimity. We cannot withhold it : — " Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 UNION, strong and great ! Humanity 'with all its fears,...thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast and sail and rope, What anvils rang. what hammers... | |
 | 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,...thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1850 - 476 pages
...Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning...thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers... | |
 | 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...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
...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,...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...exclaim, in the noble words of one of our poets : * " Then, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State ! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears,...thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see ! she stirs ! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning...thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, Wliat anvils rang, what... | |
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