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 W. Longfellow (1807-1882)
-- The Building of the Ship
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
And all I ask is a tall ship and a, star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a gray mist on the sea's face and a gray dawn breaking....