 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
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1942 - 694 pages
...streakings 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 thy hues were horn in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 940 pages
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 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) EMERSON is best known today as a writer of philosophical essays, but... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
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 | Genealogy - 1897 - 1168 pages
...pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit...breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's sail beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? MRS. SLOCOMB'S ADDRESS. The address... | |
 | Don Harrison Doyle - History - 2001 - 492 pages
...battle, to strike for our rights, and to return with it, wreathed in victory, or to return no more. 'Forever float that standard sheet, Where breathes...freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner waving o'er us. ' " 73 Individual symbols of loyalty also were worn. Southern rebels wore "cockades,"... | |
 | Genealogy - 1902 - 590 pages
...IVhittier. Music, "Star Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key). "Flag of the free, heart's hope and home, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven." — Drake. ADDRESS OF WELCOME, MRS. WILLIAM W. WILCOX, Regent, Wadsworth Chattier. "You are welcome... | |
 | Hershel Parker - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 250 pages
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 | Edwarda Barry - History - 2007 - 134 pages
...footprint of the original building. "Flag of the iree heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome And all thy hues were born in heaven." QMebraium flit. §>t. iHarij'a GJnllrgr JJlamfirliJ, Jfrro 3rrarg Aftmuron. 3une 13. 1314 "Let it rise,... | |
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