 WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings...  New National Fifth Reader - Page 405by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1848 - 276 pages
...tempest, armed with wrath, Commissioned to affright us, and destroy. THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY JR DRAKE. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height, Unfurled her...stars of glory there ! She mingled with its gorgeous dyus The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning... | |
 | 1888 - 458 pages
...mentioned in an introduction. If we could retain the first lines of Drake's poem on the American flag — " When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air" — it will be easily retained by picturing the scene, with a vivid conception of Freedom on the mountain... | |
 | 1850 - 264 pages
...tempest, armed with wrath, Commissioned to affright us, and destroy. THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY JR DRAKE. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height, Unfurled her...skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light, Then from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 372 pages
...sig'nal ; 3. glit'ning for glit'tening ; 3. ven'gunce for ven'geance. THE AMERICAN FLAG. JR DRAKE. 1. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her...azure robe of night And set the stars of glory there. NOTES. — • See Union, p. 246, note a. & The constitution of the United States wa« adopted September... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...immortal spirit in the skies may bloom. SMITH, THE AMERICAN FLAG. WHEN Freedom, from her mountain hight, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure...the skies. And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light ; Then from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down,... | |
 | Pomroy Jones - 1851 - 936 pages
...Swartwout, of Poughkeepsie, an officer of the garrison. Brake, in his beautiful poem. The Flcg, says : — " When freedom from her mountain height, Unfurled her...robe of night, And set the stars of glory there." The garrison of Fort Stanwix in their extremity were less poetical in their choice of materials for... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 pages
...Switzerland again was free ; 28. B. Thus death made way for liberty ! .THE AMERICAN FLAG. — JR Drake. WHEN Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, 1. I. She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there ; 2. I. She mingled with the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 948 pages
...PICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION. CHAPTER I. " When Freedom, from, her mountain height, Unfurl'd ng p - streakings of the morning light ; Then from his mansion in the sun She call'd her eagle-bearer down,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...which he has long devoted to his country. 46. THE AMERICAN FLAG.— JR Drake. Born, 1795 ; died, 1830. WHEN Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her...stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dies The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white, With streakings of the morning... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...Freedom from her mountain height Unfurl'd her standard to the air, She tore the nzure robe of ni<rht, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with...skies, And striped its pure, celestial white, With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She call'd her eagle bearer down,... | |
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