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Bibliography: "The Building of the Ship" by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Title
- "The Building of the Ship"
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Date
- Genre
- poetry
- Note Source
- One of Ours Part IV, Chap. 2
- Note Relating to Cather
- In One of Ours, an "old clergyman" watching the Anchises sailing away "began solemnly to quote from a poet who in his time was still popular": "Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State." (Cather quotes lines 376 and 378-80; she skips "Sail on, O UNION, strong and great!")
