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A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Civil and military history. v.2 ... - Page 76
by William Schouler - 1868
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The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet 1 "Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With...Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? Joseph Rodman Drain LIV. TO A LADY'S PICTURE. WHAT are you, lady ? naught is here...
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The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in ...

John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...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 our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JB Drakt. ccxxv. THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE. DO not lift him from the bracken, leave...
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The National Handbook of Facts and Figures: Historical, Statistical ...

1868 - 422 pages
...have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven I Forever float that standard sheet I "Where breathes the foe but falls before us? "With...Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? IMPOETANT EVENTS OF THE EEBELLION, For a Chronology of Battles, see page 280. 1§59....
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A Popular and Authentic Life of Ulysses S. Grant

Edward Deering Mansfield - 1868 - 386 pages
...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 our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ?" It was in such a scene the poet wrote this inspiring stanza, and such must be...
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Comstock's Elocution, Enlarged: A System of Vocal Gymnastics Designed for ...

Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...welkin dome | And all thy hues were born in heaven ; | For ever float that standard sheet ! | Hihere breathes the foe but falls before us, | With freedom's soil beneath our feet, | And freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! | MOTIVES TO THE PRACTICE OF GENTLENESS. (BLAIR.) To promote the virtue of gentleness,...
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Common School Readings: Containing New Selections in Prose and Poetry for ...

John Swett - 1867 - 252 pages
...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 our feet, NEVER OR NOW. — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. LISTEN, young heroes 1 your country is calling! Time strikes...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...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 beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us. Tfie American FELICIA HEMANS. 1794-1835. !' EAVES have their time to fall, -* —...
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Book of Elegant Poetical Extracts

John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pages
...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 beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er na I ]. K. DRAKB. BASHFULNESH - BLUSH - MODESTY. BA8HFULNESS- t'UJSH— MODESTY. Unto...
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Wiley's Elocution and Oratory: Giving a Thorough Treatise on the Art of ...

Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 pages
...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 our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? LXXIV.— BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE, 1809. Rev. CIUBLES WOLFE. 1. NOT a drum was...
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Quarterly, Volume 7

1906 - 504 pages
...onward march of our Christian civilization ; and that when we say : "Forever float that standard sheet, Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us?" We should do so in a spirit of humility born of the responsibility placed upon...
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