| William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...fly, In triumph, o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free hearts' only home, By angel hands to valour given : Thy stars have lit the welkin dome And all...Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe that falls before it ? With Freedom's soil beneath our ieet, And Freedom's banner streaming... | |
| 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... | |
| 1834 - 430 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 born in heaven \ Forever fl&at that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us. With Freedom's soil beneath... | |
| Songs - 1835 - 320 pages
...And smile to see thy 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...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... | |
| Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. V. 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. Forever float... | |
| Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - Education - 1836 - 262 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,...Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe, but falls before u», With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming... | |
| 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...Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe that stands before us ? With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming... | |
| 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... | |
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