Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath... American Literature - Page 89by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1836 - 268 pages
...thy hues were born in heaven ! Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe that stands before us ? With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! SONG OF MARION'S MEN. BY WM. CULLEN BRYANT. OUR band is few, but true and tried, Our leader frank... | |
| Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1836 - 262 pages
...angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe, but falls before u», With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? When he had read... | |
| 1837 - 682 pages
...responded with a quickening pulse, and a prouder feeling, to the closing exclamation : ' Forever wave that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls...beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us l' anee. They give a tone to the feelings of a nation ; they pnite the hearts of a people ; and by... | |
| 1837 - 648 pages
...closing exclamation : 'Forever wave that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before ui ? With freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us !' ance. They give a tone to the feelings of a nation ; they unite the hearts of a people ; and by... | |
| John Keese - 1840 - 300 pages
...to valour given ; The stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. For ever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? SONG FROM "FANNY." BY FO HALLBCK. YOUNG thoughts have music in them, love And happiness their theme... | |
| John Keese - 1840 - 304 pages
...to valour given ; The stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born hi heaven. For ever float that standard sheet ! } Where breathes the foe but falls before us, r^ With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, \ And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? ^/ ' SONG FHOM... | |
| Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...valour given ! I Thy stars have lit the welkin dome | And all thy hues were born in heaven ; | For ever float that standard sheet ! | Where breathes the foe...our feet, | And freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! I MOTIVES TO THE PRACTICE OP GENTLENESS. (BLAIR.) To promote the virtue of gentleness, | we ought... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1841 - 422 pages
...angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er ua ? To the Ursa Major. — HENRY WARE, JR.* WITH what a stately and majestic step That glorious constellation... | |
| William McCarty - 1842 - 482 pages
...angel hands to valour given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven! Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes...our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us! 167 THE AMERICAN PATRIOT'S SONG. HARK ! hear ye the sounds that the winds on their pinions Exultingly... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet I Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! TO SARAH. happy year has fled, SALL, Since you were all my own ; The leaves have felt the autumn... | |
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