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... The National Register - Page 3521819Full view - About this book
| William Gannaway Brownlow - 1862 - 512 pages
...Banner; and let my children's children know that the last words I uttered on earth were, — " Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us !" January 1, 1862. — For the last four or five days I have been very sick, and I am now salivated... | |
| Edward Chauncey Marshall - 1862 - 188 pages
...to valor given, Thy stars have lit the 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 Boil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us I" APPENDIX, APPENDIX. L THE APPOINTMENT... | |
| 1862 - 200 pages
...common liberty in deathless echoes. (Applause.) Soldiers, go forth bearing that flag; — " Forever float that standard sheet, — Where breathes the foe but falls before us 1 With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us." (Great applause.)... | |
| Stephen Watkins Clark - 1863 - 108 pages
...welkin DOME, 12. And all thy HUES WERE BORN in heaven : 13. Forever FLOAT that standard SHEET ! 14. "Where BREATHES the FOE but falls before us, "With...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? 9. Thy stars — whose stars ? 10. Flag, given to valor— given by angel-hands. 13. May that... | |
| Tammany Society, or Columbian Order (New York, N.Y.) - 1863 - 318 pages
...thy hues were born in heaven ; Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe that stands before us ? With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! After another song and chorus by the Quartette, Mr. HENRY MORFORD was introduced by the Grand... | |
| Robert Raikes Raymond - 1864 - 530 pages
...world that we have the will and the power to protect our citizens abroad as well as at home : " Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe...beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us." Why should we destroy our Government ? The liberty we enjoy is not simply the work of the seven... | |
| James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - 1864 - 200 pages
...lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet, AVhere breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us! Ulr. f intaln at famt in Springfitft, an& ilr. f inc01n at % HPt f0ttst in Itojpgton. (EXTRACT... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...hands to valor given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were bom in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! WILLIAM B. TAPPAN, 1795—1819. IMOHAM TAPPAX, the son of Samuol Tappan, a teacher in Beverly,... | |
| James Edward Murdoch - 1865 - 194 pages
...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...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! r. fincaln at grare in Sgringfieft, ana $*. finwin at t\t ®p« 10nse in »($njjt0n. (EXTRACT... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1865 - 564 pages
...Valour 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...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ' THE CULPRIT FAY. "My visual orbs are purged from film, and, lo ! Instead of Anster's turnip-bearing... | |
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