 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...  Verse for Patriots: To Encourage Good Citizenship - Page 265by Jean Broadhurst - 1919 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Flags - 1861 - 24 pages
...And set the stara of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings...; 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. T II E AMERICAN FLAG,... | |
 | Missouri. Convention - History - 1861 - 336 pages
...set the stars of glory there, She mingled with its, georgeous dies, The milky girdle of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white, With streakings...of the morning light. Then from his mansion in the skies, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land."... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1102 pages
...high ; * * * ยป * Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; * * * * * Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given, The stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven !" (Cheers.) Honor to the... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 pages
...once to heaven and thes, Vud smile to see thy splendors fly u triumph o'er his closing eye. v. 'las of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valor given ; he stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were bom in heaven. orever float that standard... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1862 - 354 pages
...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...into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land." Washington accepted the command of the American forces in 1775 ; he resigned his commission in 1783.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 pages
...gorgeous dies The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white, With strcakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the...into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Majestic monarch of the cloud, Who rear'st aloft thy regal form, To hear the tempest trumpings loud... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...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 hie mansion in the sun She call'd her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skics, And striped its pure, celestial white. With strenkings of the morning light ; Then from his mansion in the sun She cull'd her cngle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Majestic... | |
 | Tammany Society, or Columbian Order (New York, N.Y.) - 1863 - 318 pages
...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...into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land ! Majestic monarch of the cloud ! Who rear'st aloft thy regal form, To hear the tempest trumping loud,... | |
 | John Mahelon Berry Sill - English language - 1863 - 240 pages
...gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streamings of the morning light ; Then, from his mansion in the...gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen band." " O'er a low couch the setting sun had thrown its latest ray, Where in his last strong agony... | |
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