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" 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 352
1819
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Soldiers' Letters, from Camp, Battlefield and Prison

Lydia Minturn Post - 1865 - 484 pages
...to valor given I 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?" LETTER CXLII. A SOLDIER'S PROPHECY. THE dawn of a conquered peace is breaking upon us. Ere another...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...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. The American Flag. FELICIA HEMANS. 1794-1835. Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither...
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Golden Leaves from the American Poets

1865 - 564 pages
...thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but fells before us, With Freedom's soil 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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KEY-NOTES OF AMERICAN LIBERTY;

1866 - 278 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...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? 12* ...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...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 ! DRAKE. JOSEPH RODMAX DRAKE, author of "The Culprit Fay," was born in the city of New York, August...
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Key-notes of American Liberty: Comprising the Most Important Speeches ...

1866 - 288 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...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? 12* THE SOUTH, COMPRISING THE MOST IMPORTANT SPEECHES AND PUBLIC ACTS EMANATING FROM THE SOUTH...
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The Nation and the Constitution: An Oration Delivered Before the City ...

Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 674 pages
...around him a panoply of protection which no nation in this age can penetrate. Truly, we can now say, " Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With freedom's...beneath our feet and freedom's banner streaming o'er us. " It is useless for me to dwell upon our progress as a nation, because it is written upon every...
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Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L ..., Volume 2; Volume 86

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...have lit the welkin dome And all thy hues were born in heaven ! For ever float that standard sheet I Where breathes the foe but falls before us? With freedom's...beneath our feet. And freedom's banner streaming o'er us I* FITZ-OEEENE IIALLECK born at Guilford, in Connecticut, Angnst, 1796. He early wrote verses. One...
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One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose: Both New and Old ...

Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - 1866 - 204 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...falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, INFELICISSIME.—Nassau Magazine. I STAND upon the hoary mountains of old Time, God's stern and sleepless...
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Quarterly, Volume 7

1906 - 504 pages
...were but incidents in the onward march of our Christian civilization ; and that when we say : "Forever float that standard sheet, Where breathes the foe...beneath our feet And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?" We should do so in a spirit of humility born of the responsibility placed upon us by the all-wise...
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