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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... "
Open Sesame!: Poetry and Prose for School-days - Page 173
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...When freedom from Aer mountain height | Unfurl'd Aer standard to the air, | She tore the azure ro6e of night, | And set the stars of glory there ! | She...gorgeous dyes | The milky baldric of the skies, | And stripes? its pure celestial white, | With streakinga from the morning light / | Then, from Aer mansion...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 17

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 564 pages
...emphasis, an ode, of which the first stanza is as follows : 'When Freedom from her mountain bclghl Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of Night, And «et the itari of (lory tlier - f - re Г If the author of this composition could have listened to...
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Military

William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...well." 166 TO THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurl'd her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...And striped its pure celestial white With streakings from the morning light! Then, from her mansion in the sun, She call'd her eagle bearer down, And gave...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...long loved in thy wild minstrelsy. THE AMERICAN FLAG. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurl'd her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...skies, And striped its pure, celestial white, With streamings of the morning light ; Then from his mansion in the sun She call'd her eagle bearer down,...
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The Great Western Magazine and Anglo-American Journal of ..., Volume 1

United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...and marked emphasis, an ode, of which the first stanza is as follows : When Freedem from her monntain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore...the azure robe of Night, And set the stars of glory ther-r-re ! If the author of this composition could have listened to Mr. Chipp's recitation, his feelings...
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Readings in American Poetry

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...great God adore. THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY JOSEPH R. DRAKE. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurl'd her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...morning light ; Then from his mansion in the sun She call'd her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Majestic...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy. THE AMERICAN FLAG. Freedom from her mountain height UnfurI'd her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...morning light ; Then from his mansion in the sun She call'd her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. n. . Majestic...
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The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...attractive, of that other well known lyric, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. " When Freedom from her mountain bight, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure...robe of night, And set the stars of glory there." It is illustrated from drawings by DABLEY, and adapted by Geo. Danskin to music from Bellini. [For...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volumes 32-33

1844 - 620 pages
...origin of the stripes and stars in the American liag : When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurl'd her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakingsof the morning light! This word ' baldric' is in great request. The Americans make heavy...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. CXXI. THE AMERICAN FLAG. JR DRAKE. When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her...stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dies The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white, With streakings of the morning...
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