...the President had written in his own hand, and this letter contained the famous lines of Longfellow: Sail on, O ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. "At about that same time he devised the extraordinary measure of assistance called Lend-Lease,...

...sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men. (1. 1 —5) Tlw Building of the Ship 6 tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the Prince of...24 With sweet May dews my wings were wet, And Phoe on thy fate! 12 Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; The...

...Presidential election. He had it framed. The letter contains a quotation from Longfellow's poem which read: 'Sail on O ship of state! Sail on O Union, strong...all the hopes of future years! Is hanging breathless on thy fate!' It was addressed to him as 'A Certain Naval Person.'1 This, apparently, was a sort of...

...of the poet: 'Farewell! A long farewell to all my greatness! ' " And now another poet had written: Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union,...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...

...Longfellow and asked Wendell Willkie to give it to Churchill: Sail on, Oh Ship of State! Sail on, Oh Union strong and great. Humanity with all its fears With all the hope of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate.24 Fittingly Churchill brought to Newfoundland...

...stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour. 6475 'The Building of the Ship' on thy fate! 6476 'Children' Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye...

...war, and may well be applied to India at this crisis : 'Thou too, sail on, 0 Ship of State, Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great : Humanity with all its fears,...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...

...an amount he would 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...

...Longfellow's allegory at which he collapses the three levels into one in his famous coda beginning: Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union,...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...

...The allusion is to the poem "The Building of the Ship" by Longfellow. Permit me to quote the stanza: Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong...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...