 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...seemed to say, — " Take her, O bridegroom, old and gray, Take her to thy protecting arms, With ajl her youth and all her charms ! " How beautiful she...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...! She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous...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... | |
 | Aaron Venable Brown - 1854 - 608 pages
...storm. Despair can only increase her danger in the present one. Let us hope and cheer her to the last. " Thou too, sail on, O ship of State Sail on, O Union...master laid thy keel, What workman wrought thy ribs of Bteel, Who made each mast and sail and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 472 pages
...the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives ! Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State I Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with...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... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...exclaim, in thu 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,...thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, A( h;it anvils rang, what... | |
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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 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,... 
