 Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Ea'ch dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.  Days with Uncle Jack - Page 19by John Walter Davis - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave. When...thy 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... | |
 | Seafaring life - 1854 - 504 pages
...glow, Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely mestenger of death. Flag of the neas, on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frightened waves rush wildly back Before me broad-side's reeling rack, The dying wanderer of the sea... | |
 | John Sherburne Sleeper - 1854 - 432 pages
...triumphant voice, " I KNOW'D, SIR, I COULD RAISE A BREEZE ! " WALTER GRAFTON, THE IMPRESSED AMERICAN. " Flag of the Seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; Kach dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | Anti-Catholicism - 1855 - 124 pages
...cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter...thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valor given ; The stars have lit the welkin... | |
 | Anti-Catholicism - 1855 - 112 pages
...cowering foes shall sink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That loveJy messenger of death. ** Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter...to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors flv In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valor... | |
 | One of 'em - American literature - 1855 - 330 pages
...Each gallant arm, that strikes beneath That awful messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave. When...wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack. The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile, to see thy splendors... | |
 | Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...beneath Each gallant arm. that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas, on ocean's wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When...the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frightened waves rush wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack ; The dying wanderer of the... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death ! Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave, Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave. When...on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, 30 And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack ; The dying wanderer of... | |
 | One of 'em - American literature - 1855 - 340 pages
...wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack. The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at ouce to heaven and thee, And smile, 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,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1855 - 444 pages
...gallant arm tha/t strikes below | That lovely messenger of death ! ] Flag of the seas! [on ocean's wave, | Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave. | When death, careering on the gale, I Sweeps darkly round the swelling sail, I And frighted waves rush wildly back | Before the broadside's... | |
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