“Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears,…”

“Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah has triumph'd,--his people are free.”

“Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.”

“O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!”

“Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close…”

“Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.”