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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!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Building of the Ship." The Seaside and the Fireside. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850, I. 377.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Building of the Ship." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 377.

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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!