Abraham Lincoln's Religion (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Religion<br><br>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 its hopes of future years,<br>Is hanging breathless on thy fate!<br><br>We know what Master laid thy keel,<br>What Workman wrought thy ribs of steel,<br>Who made each mast and sail and rope,<br>What anvils rang, what hammers beat,<br>In what a forge and what a heat<br>Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!<br><br>Fear not each sudden sound and shock:<br>'Tis the wave, and not the rock,<br>'Tis but the flapping of the sail,<br>And not a rent made by the gale!<br><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>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.