 | E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 pages
...ecstasy of delight. 4. Trl'ton, a fabled sea demi-god, the trumpeter of Neptune. 31.-OLD IRONSIDES. 1. AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...burst the cannon's roar : The meteor of the ocean air 2. .Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe When winds were hurrying... | |
 | Samuel Sidney McClure - 1883 - 596 pages
...mocked her spoilers with school-boy scorn," and aided in preserving her by publishing his now familiar "OLD IRONSIDES. " Ay, tear her tattered ensign down...sky; Beneath it rung the battle-shout, And burst the cannons' roar, — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! " O, better that her... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1883 - 338 pages
...now, and Fame's — One of the few, the immortal names That were not born to die. FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. OLD IRONSIDES. AY, tear her tattered ensign down !...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... | |
 | United States. Naval History Division - 1969 - 82 pages
...be broken up for scrap, an effective measure to save her was Oliver Wendell Holmes' stirring lines : "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...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."... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 264 pages
...Charleston, Mass. Holmes wrote out this copy of the poem in the final weeks of the American Civil War. Old Ironsides. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!...see /That banner in the sky; / Beneath it rung the battle shout, / And burst the cannons' roar; — /The meteor of the ocean air / Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | Herbert Cahoon, Thomas V. Lange, Charles Ryskamp - 1977 - 264 pages
...in the final weeks of the American Civil War. Old Ironsides. Ay, tear her tattered ensign dou>n! / Long has it waved on high,/ And many an eye has danced...see /That banner in the sky: / Beneath it rung the battle shout,/ And burst the cannons' roar; — /The meteor of the ocean air / Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Where I cling. (1. 43-48) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; FaBoBe; FaPON; NAAL-1; PoLF; PWR; WBLP Old Ironsides 17 e such by love; Call her one, me another fly. We're...too, and at our own cost die, And we in us find the (1. 1—4) 18 O, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the... | |
 | Bill Lawrence - 1995 - 286 pages
...scuttle her in 1830, but a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes whipped up public sentiment. The poem began: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. The Constitution still is a commissioned ship of the United States Navy, listed on the rolls as the... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...him honorary degrees. A complete edition of his poems appeared in 1895, the year following his death. OLD IRONSIDES Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; 5 Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...with sleepless eye I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can. OLD IRONSIDES Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long...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... | |
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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... 
