Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each 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. Flag... New National First[ -fifth] Reader - Page 406by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884Full view - About this book
| Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...Death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying...welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. For ever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil... | |
| Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1860 - 218 pages
...round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broad-sides reeling rack, The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee, And smile, to see thy splendours fly, In triumph, o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home, By angel hands... | |
| Joseph Rodman Drake - 1861 - 24 pages
...death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying...hope and home, By angel hands to valor given, Thy stare have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven ! Forever float that standard... | |
| George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 650 pages
...Flag of the free heart's only home, By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the western dome, And all thy hues were born in Heaven. Forever float that standard sheet, While breathes the foe, that falls before us : With Freedom's soil beneath our feet ; And Freedom's... | |
| Sir William Howard Russell - 1861 - 1100 pages
...high ; * * * » * Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave ; * * * * * Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given, The stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven !" (Cheers.) Honor to the... | |
| Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 pages
...once to heaven and thes, Vud smile to see thy splendors fly u triumph o'er his closing eye. v. 'las of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valor given ; he stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were bom in heaven. orever float that standard... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellicd sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying...heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In trinmph o'er his elosing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valor .given... | |
| Edward Chauncey Marshall - 1862 - 188 pages
...T. UNIYUWITT, ETC. # tt Flag of the seas f on ocean's waTe Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to sec thy splendors fty In triumph o'er his closing *yel" J. RODMAN DBAKB. NEW YORK: D. VAN KOSTRAND,... | |
| 1920 - 60 pages
..."Be pure;" Blue says, "Be true." — SELECTED. lag of the free hearts' hope and home, By angel's hand to valor given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome And all thy hues were born in heaven. — DRAKE. et the National flag float over every schoolhouse in the country, and the exercises be such... | |
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