Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! <br /> Sail on, O Union, strong and great! <br /> Humanity with all its fears, <br /> With all the hopes of future years, <br /> Is hanging breathless on the fate! <br /> We know what Master laid the keel, <br /> What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, <br /> Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, <br /> What anvils rang, what hammers beat, <br /> In what forge and what a heat <br /> Were shaped the anchors of thy hope! <br /> Fear not each sudden sound and shock, <br /> 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; <br /> 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, <br /> And not a rent made by the gale! <br /> In spite of rock and tempest's roar, <br /> In spite of false lights on the shore, <br /> Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! <br /> Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, <br /> Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, <br /> Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, <br /> Are all with thee, - are all with thee!<br /><br />Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/republic-the/
