Flag Day; Its HistoryRobert Haven Schauffler |
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adopted alternate red American flag arms army battle battle-cry of freedom beneath Betsy Ross bless blood blue field Bonnie Blue Flag born boys brave called cheer chorus colors Congress constellation country's cross death emblem eyes feet fight flag of Germany flash floats folds forever Fort Adams gleaming glorious hail hands hear heart heaven heroes honor hope hurrah John Ross land liberty light living loyal marching millions national flag navy never old flag Old Glory patriotism peace Philadelphia Philip Nolan prisoner rally red and white regiment sailed salute shine ship Shouting the battle-cry soldier song stand standard star-spangled banner starry stars and stripes story symbol tell Texas thee thirteen colonies thirteen stars thirteen stripes thirteen United tion to-day told tramp triumph true truth unfurled union be thirteen Washington wave O'er White and Blue Youth's Companion
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Page 54 - By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die,...
Page 59 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white, With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down. And gave Into his mighty hand, The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 68 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 215 - That on the admission of every new State into the Union, one star be added to the union of the Flag ; and that such addition shall take effect on the fourth of July next succeeding such admission.
Page 98 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Page 163 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Page 33 - Lord of the Universe ! shield us and guide us, Trusting us always through shadow and sun ! Thou hast united us, who shall divide us? Keep us, oh keep us the many in one ! Up with our banner bright, Sprinkled with starry light, Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore, While through the sounding sky Loud rings the Nation's cry, — Union and Liberty! One Evermore!
Page 206 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 59 - tis given To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle-stroke, And bid its blendings shine afar, Like rainbows on the cloud of war, The harbingers of victory!
Page 61 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.