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
Hope
A quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From the source
The Building of the Ship.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.