 Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag...  Language Work in Elementary Schools - Page 304by Macon Anderson Leiper - 1916 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe that falls before it ? With Freedom's soil beneath our ieet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us.... | |
 | 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
...the broadside's reeling rack. ^ The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, 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 lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were... | |
 | Songs - 1835 - 320 pages
...the broadside's reeling rack, The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, 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 lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were... | |
 | 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,...standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe, but falls before u», With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? When he had read... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - Education - 1836 - 264 pages
...the broadside's reeling rock, The dying wanderer of the sea, Shall look at once to heaven and thee, 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 lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...broadside's reeling rack, — The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee, 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 valour given, — . Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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