 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 streakings...  The Cyr Readers Arranged by Grades: Book seven - Seite 189von Ellen M. Cyr - 1901Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...! r3 LESSON LXXIV. TJie American Flag. — JR 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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 456 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 276 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1888 - 458 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 264 Seiten
...tempest, armed with wrath, Commissioned to affright us, and destroy. THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY JR DRAKE. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height, Unfurled her...light, Then from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land ! Majestic monarch of... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 372 Seiten
...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 her...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... | |
 | Pomroy Jones - 1851 - 936 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 Seiten
...Switzerland again was free ; 28. B. Thus death made way for liberty ! .THE AMERICAN FLAG. — JR Drake. WHEN Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, 1. I. She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there ; 2. I. She mingled with the... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 948 Seiten
...PICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION. CHAPTER I. " When Freedom, from, her mountain height, Unfurl'd ng p - call'd her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land." JOSEPH... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 Seiten
...Freedom from her mountain height Unfurl'd her standard to the air, She tore the nzure robe of ni<rht, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with...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. II. Majestic... | |
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