| Lydia Minturn Post - United States - 1865 - 484 pages
...the stars of glory there ! Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given I Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?" LETTER CXLII. A SOLDIER'S PROPHECY. THE dawn of a conquered peace is breaking upon us. Ere another... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...Shall look at once to heaven and thcc, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel...stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were bom in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With... | |
| American poetry - 1865 - 564 pages
...In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel-hands to Valour given — Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And...float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but fells before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ' THE... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. 5. Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! DRAKE. JOSEPH RODMAX DRAKE, author of "The Culprit Fay," was born in the city of New York, August... | |
| Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,...falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, INFELICISSIME.—Nassau Magazine. I STAND upon the hoary mountains of old Time, God's stern and sleepless... | |
| Slavery - 1866 - 288 pages
...to see thy splendor fly, In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free, heart's hope and home 1 By angel hands to valor given ; Thy stars have lit...welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven I Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us? With Freedom's soil... | |
| 1866 - 278 pages
...to see thy splendor fly, In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free, heart's hope and home I By angel hands to valor given; Thy stars have lit...welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven I Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe but falls before us? With Freedom's soil... | |
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - Fourth of July orations - 1866 - 726 pages
...around him a panoply of protection which no nation in this age can penetrate. Truly, we can now say, " Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With freedom's...beneath our feet and freedom's banner streaming o'er us. " It is useless for me to dwell upon our progress as a nation, because it is written upon every page... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...have lit the welkin dome And all thy hues were born in heaven ! For ever float that standard sheet I Where breathes the foe but falls before us? With freedom's...beneath our feet. And freedom's banner streaming o'er us I* FITZ-OEEENE IIALLECK born at Guilford, in Connecticut, Angnst, 1796. He early wrote verses. One... | |
| Democracy - 1941 - 120 pages
...With streamings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? —Joseph Rodman Drakrt (1817). Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until... | |
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