 twill live in song and story, Though its folds are in the dust : For its fame on brightest pages, Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages — Furl its folds though now we must. Furl that Banner, softly, slowly ! Treat it gently —...  The University of Texas Record - Page 3461900Full view - About this book
 | Augustus White Long - 1905 - 374 pages
...Penned by poets and by sages, 15 Shall go sounding down the ages — Furl its folds though now we must. Furl that Banner, softly, slowly ! Treat it gently — it is holy, For it droops above the dead. 20 Touch it not — unfold it never ; Let it droop there, furled forever, — For its people's hopes... | |
 | Charles William Hubner - 1906 - 228 pages
...Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages, — Furl its folds though now we must. "Furl that Banner, softly, slowly ! Treat it gently...there, furled forever, For its people's hopes are fled !" Patriotism — his intense love of the South, .and of the cause her people had defended with such... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 918 pages
...theirs entwined dissever, ' Till that flag should float forever O'er their freedom or their grave. "Furl that banner, softly, slowly! Treat it gently—...droop there furled forever, For its people's hopes are dead." (463) THE SOUTH IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE. Father Ryan wrote these words and felt that they... | |
 | 1903 - 626 pages
...pages, Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down to ages, Furl its folds though now we must. Furl that banner, softly, slowly ; Treat it gently,...it not, unfold it never, Let it droop there, furled for ever, For its people's hopes are dead. One thing strongly marked in these songs is the reverence... | |
 | Charles Noble - 1907 - 458 pages
...blood which heroes gave it ; And its foes now scorn and brave it ; Furl it, hide it — let it rest ! Furl that banner, softly, slowly ! Treat it gently...there, furled forever, For its people's hopes are dead. Henry Among the saddest results of the Civil War was the b™nr°n' sacrifice of precious young... | |
 | 1907 - 668 pages
...Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages — Furl its folds though now we must ! Furl that Banner, softly, slowly; Treat it gently...unfold it never ; Let it droop there, furled forever — The World's Great Operas No. 9 — Richard Strauss's "Salome." BY RH TITHERINGTON. An original... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1907 - 392 pages
...Father Ryan, notably " The Sword of Lee " and "The Conquered Banner." We can all repeat now : — " Furl that banner softly, slowly! Treat it gently — it is holy, For it droops above the dead." The best-known group of Southern poets of the war period is centered about a veteran as grizzled, picturesque,... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1908 - 746 pages
...Penned by poets and by sages. Shall go sounding down the ages — Furl its folds though now we must! Furl that Banner, softly, slowly; Treat it gently...furled forever, — For its people's hopes are fled. ABRAM J. RYAN. At the North, too. Peace was welcome. The North, while suffering lees poignantly than... | |
 | 1907 - 438 pages
...Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages — Furl its folds though now we must ! Furl that Banner, softly, slowly; Treat it gently...furled forever — For its people's hopes are fled. * * Decoration Day: A Vision of War BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. The past rises before me like a dream.... | |
 | William Henry Stewart - 1908 - 248 pages
...tortuous tracks of hostile armies from Wilderness to Appomattox, where our banner was furled forever. Furl that banner, softly, slowly, Treat it gently...there, furled forever, For its people's hopes are dead. A HISTORY OF THE CRATER THE mine under the Confederate fort in front of Petersburg, Va., was... | |
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