<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472603" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ship Of State</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A SENTIMENT</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This 'sentiment' was read on the same occasion as the 'Family Record,'<br>which immediately follows it. The latter poem is the dutiful tribute of a son to his father and his father's ancestors, residents of Woodstock from its first settlement.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE Ship of State! above her skies are blue,<br>But still she rocks a little, it is true,<br>And there are passengers whose faces white<br>Show they don't feel as happy as they might;<br>Yet on the whole her crew are quite content,<br>Since its wild fury the typhoon has spent,<br>And willing, if her pilot thinks it best,<br>To head a little nearer south by west.<br>And this they feel: the ship came too near wreck,<br>In the long quarrel for the quarter-deck,<br>Now when she glides serenely on her way,--<br>The shallows past where dread explosives lay,--<br>The stiff obstructive's churlish game to try<br>Let sleeping dogs and still torpedoes lie!<br>And so I give you all the Ship of State;<br>Freedom's last venture is her priceless freight;<br>God speed her, keep her, bless her, while she steers<br>Amid the breakers of unsounded years;<br>Lead her through danger's paths with even keel,<br>And guide the honest hand that holds her wheel!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472603" data-title="The Ship Of State de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="A SENTIMENT This 'sentiment' was read on the same occasion as the 'Family Record,' which immediately follows it. The latter poem is the dutiful tribute of a son to his father and his father's ancestors, residents of Woodstock from its first settl..."></div> </div> </div>

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