 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...fly, In triumph, o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home ! By angel hands to valour given, — . Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And...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... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...fly, In triumph o'er the closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home, By angel hands to valour given ! 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 but falls before us, With freedom's soil... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - Education - 1836 - 264 pages
...splendors fly, In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home, By angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were horn in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe, but falls before us, With... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - New York (State) - 1836 - 110 pages
...o'er his closing eye. V. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands 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 but falls before us, With Freedom's soil... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - American literature - 1837 - 280 pages
...to valour given ; 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? MORNING HYMN. Genesis i. 3. BY CF HOFFMAN. " LET THERE BE LIGHT !" The Eternal spoke, And from the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - American literature - 1837 - 278 pages
...look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. 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. For ever float... | |
 | 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... | |
 | American literature - 1835 - 518 pages
...The stanza originally stood thus : — " Flag of the free heart's only homo, By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven ; And fixed as yonder orb divine, That saw thy bannered blaze unfurled, Shall thy proud stars resplendent... | |
 | American poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, Flag of the free hearts' only home, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? v To the Ursa Major.—HENRY WARE, JR.* WITH what a stately and majestic step That glorious constellation... | |
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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... 
