Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her... New National First [-fifth] Reader - Page 338by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
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| 1853 - 458 pages
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| 1854 - 576 pages
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