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Uncover when the flag goes by, boys,
'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,
Flag fames in song and story
Long may it wave, old glory
The flag that has never known defeat.
Author: Charles L. Benjamin and George D. Sutton
Source: The Flag That Has Never Known Defeat
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Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky:
Hats off!
The flag is passing by.
Author: Henry Holcomb Bennett
Source: The Flag Goes By
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United States, your banner wears
Two emblems--one of fame;
Alas! the other that it bears
Reminds us of your shame.
Your banner's constellation types
White freedom with its stars,
But what's the meaning of the stripes?
They mean your negroes' scars.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: To the United States of North America
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The meteor flag of England.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Ye Mariners of England
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Ye mariners of England!
That guard our native seas;
Whose flag has braved a thousand years,
The battle and the breeze!
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Ye Mariners of England
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Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout,
To all the winds of Our Country's Banner!
Be every bar, and every star,
Displayed in full and glorious manner!
Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying!
Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!
Author: Abraham Coles
Source: The Microcosm and other Poems (p. 191)
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If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on
the spot.
Author: John A. Dix
Source: Speeches and Addresses (vol. II, p. 440, An Official Dispatch)
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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.
Author: Joseph Rodman Drake
Source: The Croakers--The American Flag (st. 1)
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Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
By angel hands to valour given,
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome;
And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Author: Joseph Rodman Drake
Source: The Croakers--The American Flag (st. 5)
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A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole,
It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.
'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,
When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.
Author: Sir Edward Bruce Hamley
Source: referring to the Colors of the 43rd Monmouth Light Infantry
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Ay, here her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: A Metrical Essay
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Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the God of storms,
The lightning and the gale.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: A Metrical Essay
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Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight
O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Author: Francis Scott Key
Source: Star-Spangled Banner (first stanza of the American National Anthem), first stanza of the American Na
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Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming;
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there!
Oh! say, does that star spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Author: Francis Scott Key
Source: Star-Spangled Banner (st. 1)
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Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen stall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n 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, "In God is our trust!"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Author: Francis Scott Key
Source: Star-Spangled Banner (st. 4)
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What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare,
Ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Source: The English King
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England! Whence came each glowing hue
That hints your flag of meteor light,--
The streaming red, the deeper blue,
Crossed with the moonbeams' pearly white?
The blood, the bruise--the blue, the red--
Let Asia's groaning millions speak;
The white it tells of colour fled
From starving Erin's pallid cheek.
Author: George Lunt
Source: Answer to Campbell, in "Newburyport News" in Massachusetts
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Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
Harpies and Hydras.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 604)
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The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced,
Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 536)
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Under spreading ensigns moving nigh, in slow
But firm battalion.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 533)
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Bastard Freedom waves
Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes
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"A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall
Which gave the Republic her station;
"United we stand--divided we fall!"
It made and preserves us a nation!
Author: George P. Morris
Source: The Flag of Our Union
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The flag of our Union forever!
Author: George P. Morris
Source: The Flag of Our Union
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Your flag and my flag,
And how it flies today
In your land and my land
And half a world away!
Rose-red and blood-red
The stripes forever gleam;
Snow-white and soul-white--
The good forefathers' dream;
Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright--
The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.
Author: Wilbur D. Nesbit
Source: Your Flag and My Flag
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This is the song of the wind as it came,
Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame.
Author: Alfred Noyes
Source: Avenue of the Allies
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