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alternate red Ameri American flag Arizona arms banner bright Betsy Ross blue field borne Boston brave breeze British bunting Charleston cheers Colonel colonies colonists colors command Commodore Continental Congress cross of St declared displayed Endicott England fifteen stars fifteen stripes fight fired flag floating flag stands Franklin freedom Grand Union Flag halyards hand harbor hoisted honor Indians John Paul Jones June King liberty pole Liberty Tree little company little silken flag marched Massachusetts ment militia mother country motto Moultrie nation naval flag navy never night O'er the land officer Old Flag Old Glory passed peace pine tree Ranger rattlesnake red and white rejoicing replied sailed salute sent ship Sons of Liberty staff stamps star-spangled banner Stars and Stripes story strike her colors Sweden thee thirteen stars thirteen stripes tion to-day troops United upper corner vessel Virginia Washington wave O'er white stripes York
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Page 117 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song ! Let mortal tongues awake ; Let all that breathe partake ; Let rocks their silence break,— The sound prolong ! Our fathers...
Page 93 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 57 - Her deck once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!
Page 93 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 81 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 94 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just; And this be our motto :
Page 117 - t is of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain-side Let freedom ring.
Page 116 - Its stripes of alternate red and white proclaim the original union of thirteen states to maintain the Declaration of Independence. Its stars of white on a field of blue proclaim that union of states constituting our national constellation, which receives a new star with every new state. The two together signify union, past and present. The very colors have a language which was officially recognized by our fathers. White is for purity, red for valor, blue for justice...
Page 98 - Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and great, Fought to make and to save the State: Weary marches and sinking ships; Cheers of victory on dying lips; Days of plenty and years of peace; March of a strong, land's swift increase; Equal justice, right and law, Stately honor and reverend awe; Sign of a nation, great and strong To ward her people from foreign wrong: Pride and glory and honor, — all Live in the colors to stand or fall.