Flag of the free heart's hope and 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 beneath... Days with Uncle Jack - Page 20by John Walter Davis - 1914Full view - About this book
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1845 - 538 pages
...o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valour given ; The stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us 1 TO SARAH. OKr. happy year has fled, SALL, Since you were all my own ; The leaves have felt the autumn... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...splendors fly, In triumph — o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home ! By angel handa— to valor given; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,...float — that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe—but falls before us, With Freedom's soil — beneath our feet. And Freedom's banner — streaming... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...closing eye. Flag of the/ret heart's only home l By angel hands — to valor given ; Thy stars have Ht the welkin dome, And all thy hues— were born in...sheet! Where breathes the foe — but falls before ne With Freedom's soil— beneath our fe«t, And Freedom'» banner — streaming o'er ira t His being... | |
| John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...fly, In triumph o'er the closing eye. Flag 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 born in heaven ; For ever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With freedom's soil... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...to see thy splendors fly. In 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—were born in heaves. Forever float— that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe— but falls... | |
| Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...sp'endon fly. In triumph— o'er his closing eye. Flag of the frit heart's only home! By angel hand* — to valor given; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome. And all thy lined — were born in heftven. Forever float — that st.iml:ird sheet! Where breathes the foe—... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 372 pages
..."as the immediate jewel of the soul," and exclaim: "For ever float the standard sheet, ^Vhere lives the foe but falls before us; With freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner waving o'er us." 76. PART OF A SPEECH OF ELISHA WILLIAMS. . '• Gentlemen o^ip jury: — In all human... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...as the immediate jewel of the soul," and exclaim : " For ever float the standard sheet, Where lives the foe but falls before us ; "With freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner waving o'er us." 76. PART OF A SPEECH OF ELISHA WILLIAMS. 1. Gentlemen of the jury : — In all human... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...splendors fly, In 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,...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? To the Ursa Major.— HENRY WABI, JR.* WITH what a stately and majestic step That glorious constellation... | |
| Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven ! For ever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JR DRAKE. BASHFULNESS — BLUSH —MODESTY. 1. Unto the ground she cast her modest eye, And, ever... | |
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