 Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of...  Report of the ... Annual Re-union - Page 59by Society of the Army of the Potomac - 1888Full view - About this book
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. 4 A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,... | |
 | E. S. S. Rouse - United States - 1864 - 346 pages
...Quick as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. Pho leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will : " Shoot, if yon must, the old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatch'd the silken scarf. She lean'd far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 356 pages
...from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this gray old head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, and a blush of shame,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 422 pages
...from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare.your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Calisthenics - 1864 - 434 pages
...from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But .spare your country's flag" she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...Quick as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, — But spare your country's flag !" she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,... | |
 | Theodor S Fay - 1865 - 168 pages
...from the broken staff, Dame Barbara suatch'd the silken scarf. She lean'd far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will.' „Shoot, if you must, this old gray head — But spare your country's flag!" she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,... | |
 | Edwin B. Houghton - United States - 1866 - 360 pages
...Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,' she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1866 - 122 pages
...from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,... | |
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