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LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH, 1807-1882, American poet. Autograph manuscript signed ("Henry W. Longfellow"), two stanzas of his poem "The Building of the Ship," n.p., n.d. 1 1/4 pages, 220 x 180mm. (8 9/16 x 7 1/8 in.), in strong brown ink.
"SAIL ON, O UNION, STRONG AND GREAT!"
An attractive fair copy, boldly penned, comprising two eleven-line stanzas of the celebrated lyric, commencing:
"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...."
"SAIL ON, O UNION, STRONG AND GREAT!"
An attractive fair copy, boldly penned, comprising two eleven-line stanzas of the celebrated lyric, commencing:
"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...."