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 made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils... A Book of British and American Verse - Page 104edited by - 1922 - 1908 pagesFull view - About this book
| Readers - 1872 - 514 pages
...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...of thy hope. Fear not each sudden sound and shock ; 'Tis of the wave, and not the rock ; 272 SP ART AC US TO THE GLADIATORS. "Tis but the flapping of... | |
| American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...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...of thy hope. Fear not each sudden sound and shock : 'Tis of the wave, and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...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...Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! Fear not each sndden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers - 1872 - 418 pages
...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...and what a heat, Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! x. Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave, and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping... | |
| Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...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...hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were forged the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock — 'Tis of the wave, and not... | |
| Caspar Thomas Hopkins - United States - 1873 - 396 pages
...the ranks of willful traitors. With both, he may join in the great chorus, and sing with Longfellow : Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master...of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave, and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 632 pages
...hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! We know what Master laid thy keel, AVhat Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast,...sound and shock, 'T is of the wave and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In'spite of rock and tempest's... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 294 pages
...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...and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope 1 Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'T is of the wave and not the rock ; 'T is but the flapping... | |
| Richard Frothingham - Boston (Mass.) - 1874 - 56 pages
...Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! 3 We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought...of thy hope ! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, — 'Tis of the wave and not the rock ; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail And not a rent made by the... | |
| Lucius Alonzo Butterfield - 1874 - 36 pages
...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...and what a heat, Were shaped the anchors of thy hope ! PECTORAL. You may, if it be God's will, gain our barren and rugged mountains. But, like our ancestors... | |
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