Henry W. Longfellow

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America's Best Loved Poet
(1807-1882)

The following  is a portion of a longer poem(worth reading)
about the founding of the United States of America.

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 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 hope!


Fear not each sudden sound and shock,

'T is of the wave and not the rock;


'T is but the flapping of the sail,

And not a rent made by the gale!


In spite of rock and tempest's roar,

In spite of false lights on the shore,


Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea


Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,


Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,

Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,


Are all with thee,--are all with thee!

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The Battle Hymn of the Reformation

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The Church's One Foundation

The Landing of the Pilgrims

This Present Crisis

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