 | Linus Pierpont Brockett, Mary C. Vaughan - 1867 - 864 pages
...blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash : It rent the banner with seam and gosh. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara...old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within... | |
 | Linus Pierpont Brockett - 1867 - 858 pages
...Fire !" — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and Rash : It rent the banuer with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken...window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Sheot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...rifle-blast. 15. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. 16. Quick as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; 17. She leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. 18. " Shoot, if you... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...rifle-blast. 15. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. 16. Quick as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; 17. She leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. 18. "Shoot, if you... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...ranks stood feat; " Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it...old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; " Who touches a hair... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 410 pages
...dust-brown ranks stood fast "Fire ! "— out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it...old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within... | |
 | 1868 - 220 pages
...ranks stood fast. " Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it...snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this gray old head; But spare... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...ranks stood fast " Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it...snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this gray old head, But spare... | |
 | John Swett - 1868 - 246 pages
...dust-brown ranks stood fast. "Fire !"—out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick as it...broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,— But spare your country's flag !" she said. A shade of... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...dust-brown ranks stood fast ; " Fire !"— out blazed the rifle-blast. It shiver'd the window-pane and sash, It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatch'd the silken scarf. She lean'd far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will.... | |
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And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag, 
