 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 Literary World - Seite 771881Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Marius - 1994 - 592 Seiten
...survives! 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...forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, T is of the wave and not the rock; T is but the flapping... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1996 - 324 Seiten
...speaks: "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...forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping... | |
 | John J. Pullen - 1997 - 308 Seiten
...written: 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! It was James Pollock who put the design-concept into words. He wrote, "The medal proposed... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...the Ship' Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all on thy fate! 6476 'Children' Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye... | |
 | V. P. Menon - 1997 - 606 Seiten
...crisis : '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, Is hanging breathless on thy fate,' APPENDIX VII STATEMENT BY SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON 16 MAY 1946 You... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - 1999 - 330 Seiten
...have needed thirteen years to earn. In 1 849 Longfellow reflected on his America: "Humanity with all its fears, / With all the hopes of future years / Is hanging breathless on your fate." A century and a half later it has become impossible to say much about the world without... | |
 | James L. Abrahamson - 2000 - 228 Seiten
...gave poetic voice to those obligations: Sail on, O Union, strong and great! . . . Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is...laid thy keel What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel. Nor did only ministers and poets praise the Union. In the judgment of historian Paul Nagel, a quarter... | |
 | David P. Schippers, Alan P. Henry - 2000 - 366 Seiten
...to quote the stanza: 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! How sublime, poignant, and uplifting; yet how profound and sobering are those words at... | |
 | Mary Louise Kete - 2000 - 308 Seiten
...beginning: 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! (377-81) Longfellow here refashions the conventional image of the ship of state by grafting... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 2001 - 116 Seiten
...survives! 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...forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'T is of the wave and not the rock; 'T is but the flapping... | |
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