 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...was free no more' KNOWLES. 147. TO THE AMERICAN FLAG. WHEN freedom from her mountain heigh4 Unfurl'd her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...stars of glory there ! She mingled with its gorgeous dies And striped its pure celestial white, With streakings from the morning light ! Then, from her... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...wt live. 687. THE AXEKICAX FLAG. When Freedom—from her mountain height, Unfurl'd 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 tbe skies, And striped its... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...toro the azure robe of night, And iet the stars of glory— there. She mingled, with its gorgeous dye? The milky baldric— of the skies, And striped its pure— celestial white, With streakinge of the morning Hgbt ; Then, from his mansion — in the inn She called her eagle-bearer... | |
 | Mrs. Silver - 1846 - 356 pages
...din of preparation was heard a voice that would almost drown the thunder of a tempest, singing, — " When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her...striped its pure, celestial white With streakings from the morning light ! Then, from her mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...when the world is dark to thee, Then turn to the light of home. The American Flag. — FG HALLECX. She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there ; She mingled with the gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white, With streakings... | |
 | American poetry - 1848 - 276 pages
...tempest, armed with wrath, Commissioned to affright us, and destroy. THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY JR DRAKE. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height, Unfurled her...stars of glory there ! She mingled with its gorgeous dyus The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning... | |
 | Phrenology - 1888 - 458 pages
...mentioned in an introduction. If we could retain the first lines of Drake's poem on the American flag — " When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air" — it will be easily retained by picturing the scene, with a vivid conception of Freedom on the mountain... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 372 pages
...sig'nul for sig'nal ; 3. glit'ning for glit'tening ; 3. ven'gunce for ven'geance. THE AMERICAN FLAG. JR DRAKE. 1. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled...azure robe of night And set the stars of glory there. NOTES. — • See Union, p. 246, note a. & The constitution of the United States wa« adopted September... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 374 pages
...for sig'nal; 3. glis'ning for glis'tening ; 3. ven'gunce for ven'geance. THE AMERICAN FLAG. JR BRAKE. 1. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled...azure robe of night And set the stars of glory there. NOTES. — » See Union, p. 246, note a. b The constitution of the United States wa» adopted September... | |
 | Pomroy Jones - History - 1851 - 936 pages
...Swartwout, of Poughkeepsie, an officer of the garrison. Brake, in his beautiful poem. The Flcg, says : — " When freedom from her mountain height, Unfurled her...robe of night, And set the stars of glory there." The garrison of Fort Stanwix in their extremity were less poetical in their choice of materials for... | |
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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 ! She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With... 
