 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
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...that shakes the turrets of the land. Poetry, a Metrieal Essay. 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. Ibid. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 pages
...summer's morn, Thus mocked the spoilers with hia school-boy scorn. AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced...the cannon's roar ; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more 1 Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...evermore. Amen. Amen. OLD IRONSIDES. [OW HOLMES. S« Poge 30, Vol. II Y, tear her tatter'd ensign down, Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rang the bnttle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...that shakes the turrets of the land. Poetry, a Metrical Essay. 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. Ibid. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms,... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1875 - 622 pages
...Ironsides," which every American school-boy knows. " Aye, tear her tattered ensign down, Long has if waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky." The chief naval battle of this year was the battle of Lake Champlain. During the whole spring and summer... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...above the fight the lonely bugle grieves.' " MELLES. OLD IRONSIDES. AY. tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That hanlier in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle-sheut, And burst the cannon's roar: The meteor of the... | |
 | 1876 - 504 pages
..." OLD IRONSIDES."* Ay ! pull her lettered ensign down, Long has it waved on high, Ami many a heart has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath...the cannon's roar — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...the proposed breaking up of the famous frigate " Constitution."] AT, 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...the proposed breaking up of the famous frigate " Constitution."] AT, 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... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...Constitution WM about to be broken up as unfit for service.] "aT 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.... | |
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