| Bessie Rayner Belloc - Ethnology - 1870 - 410 pages
...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...thy fate ! We know what master laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1870 - 416 pages
...Thou, too, sail on, 0 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...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... | |
| Paul C. Nagel - Federal government - 1964 - 342 pages
...ideas of Mission and Inspired Founders, proceeded with deliberate majesty: 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.. . 21 Longfellow's confidence in the vessel's triumph, that neither... | |
| Maryland State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1920 - 284 pages
..."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...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... | |
| Business education - 1922 - 594 pages
...Thou, too, sail on, 0 Ship of State! Sai! on, 0 Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless...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... | |
| Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan - Social Science - 1977 - 620 pages
...are sound and true to measurement. Or, changing the metaphor, to say with Longfellow, of the ship: We know what Master laid thy keel, What workman wrought...of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat, Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
| Geology - 1907 - 56 pages
...it shall be said as in "The Building of the Ship," ''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 lx'at. In what a forge and what a beat Were shalx'd the anchors of thy... | |
| Poetry - 1982 - 348 pages
...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 Master laid thy keel , What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel , Who made each mast , and sail , and rope , What anvils rang, what... | |
| Daniel Aaron - American literature - 1987 - 430 pages
...invocation to the Union in "The Building of the Ship." ("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 beat,/ In what a forge and what a heat/ Were shaped the anchors of thy... | |
| Richard Marius - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 592 pages
...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...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... | |
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