 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. For ever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath...  The Household Book of Poetry - Page 390edited by - 1859 - 798 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1829 - 440 pages
...triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home! By angel hands to valor given,— Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues'...float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe that stands before us With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us!... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1831 - 424 pages
...triumph, o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free hearts' only home, By angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe, but falls before U9, With Freedom's soil... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1832 - 410 pages
...the welkin dome, Flag of the free hearts' only home, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe,...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er ua ? To the Ursa Major.—Henry Ware, Jr.* With what a stately and majestic step That glorious constellation... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...triumph, o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free hearts' only home, By angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet' Where breathes the foe, but falls before us, With Freedom's soil... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick Fay - 1832 - 232 pages
...observance.' What! sirs, shall we, in a land 'consecrated to the genius of universal emancipation,' ' With freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us,' submit to two or three editors, who, one might imagine from their actions, are ' lords of the creation... | |
 | Abby Jane Morrell - 1833 - 260 pages
...heart's only home ! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy lines were born in heaven ! For ever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe that stands before us, With freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...triumph o'er the closing eye. Flog of the free heart's only home, By angel hands to valour given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were...beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! XLVII. The. Gouty Merchaut and the Stranger.—ANONYMOUS. IN Broad street buildings, on a winter... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - Education - 1836 - 262 pages
...angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were horn in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe,...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? When he had read these stanzas, Mr. Alcott asked one of the rest, if he knew why that boy liked those... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...thy hues were bom in heaven! Forever float that standard sheet! "Where breathes the foe that stands before us ? With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us! SONG OF MARION'S MEN. BT WM. CULLKN BRYANT. Our band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank and... | |
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