The Story of Our Flag: Colonial and National, with Historical Sketch of the Quakeress Betsy Ross |
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ADDIE G adopted alternate red American Flag House Arch Street arms in Dixie army battle of Trenton beautiful Betsy Ross Memorial blue field BON HOMME RICHARD born brave British California called Canby coat of arms Colonel colors Congress conquer peace daughter Declaration of Independence died Don't Tread emblem England Florida folds Francis Scott Key Free Quaker freedom Friends Gadsden purchase George Ross glory heroes House and Betsy John Claypoole John Ross June June 14 liberty March married Mexico Napoleon nation O'er the land Old Flag House Old Thirteen original patriotic Paul Jones peace for Dixie Philadelphia preserve red and white Revolution Robert Morris Ross Memorial Association Society song Spain Star Spangled Banner stars and stripes teen territory Texas thee Thir thirteen stars to-day TREAD Unfurl the flag Union Union flag United VINU Wash WEAVER white and blue Yankee Doodle
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Page 55 - I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
Page 55 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 50 - 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, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 50 - Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming...
Page 50 - 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 28 - tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty. Of thee I sing! Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims
Page 53 - 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 of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 13 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 61 - Peace and safety we shall find. Immortal patriots ! Rise once more; Defend your rights, defend your shore; Let no rude foe with impious hand, Let no rude foe with impious hand, Invade the shrine where sacred lies Of toil and blood the well-earned prize. While offering peace sincere and just, In heaven we place a manly trust, That truth and justice will prevail, And every scheme of bondage fail.
Page 28 - And there's a nice youngster of excellent pith: Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith; But he shouted a song for the brave and the free — Just read on his medal, "My country,