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" WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings... "
New National Third Reader - Page 399
by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 240 pages
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An Introductory Treatise on Elocution: With Principles and Illustration ...

Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 pages
...marked by time only. " When Free | dom — from | her m6un | tain height Unfurled | her stand | ard — to | the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there ! " In the second foot of the first, and in the third foot of the second line occurs the ccesural foot,...
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Essays and Reviews

Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pages
...shown to have no dependence whatever upon the Poetic Power — springing altogether from Comparison. riginal. The criticism of the conservatives, of the...which condemns and alone condemns it. "It bccomcth called her eagle bearer down And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Let us reduce...
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Practitioners' Journal, Volume 17, Issue 2

1949 - 106 pages
...but it was a New Yorker, Joseph Rodman Drake who wrote the memorable ' ' Ode to the American Flag"— "When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her...azure robe of night And set the stars of glory there ! ' ' Folks, I thank you. Enjoy your visit to my beloved City of New York. Remarks of Toastmaster Braden,...
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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. The American Flag When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her...baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial while With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...faithful to thee. Cynara! in my fashion. (1. 6) JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1795-1820) The American Flag 1 (1. 1 —4) 2 And when the cannon-mouthings loud Heave in wild wreaths the battle-shroud, (I. 36—37)...
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Biennial Report, Volumes 8-11

1889 - 1032 pages
...of each word in the following sentence: When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her bunnor to the air. She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. -'. el) Give a sentence containiiiL1 a passive verb phrase. (6) One containing a perfect verb phrase....
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Great Preaching on Patriotism

Curtis Hutson - 2000 - 264 pages
...preacher, soul winner and orator. IX. The Hand of Almighty God in American History A. LO YD COLLINS When freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her...azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, "This is my own, my native...
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Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con

Frank H. Knight - 1999 - 466 pages
...denotation or connotation. One need only think of "the land of the free and the home of the brave," or "When Freedom from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, . . ." and similar poetry and rhetoric in the literature of other modern nations. In this section we...
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The Union Image: Popular Prints of the Civil War North

Mark E. Neely, Harold Holzer - 2000 - 312 pages
...and the powerful emotional response that allegorical images like Church's and Bauly 's could exact: When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, Figure 6. Sarony, Major and Knapp, after William Banly, Fate of the Rebel Flag. New York, 1861. Chromolithograph,...
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Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volume 10

1897 - 1168 pages
...following lines on " The American Flag," by Joseph Rodman Drake : When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure...there ; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky fabric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag...
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