 | Education - 1911 - 322 pages
...It's glory shall never fade, But evermore shall brightly tell Where our brave heroes all are laid. And many an eye has danced to see that banner in the sky. —Holmes. Having learned to stand by the flag, we may learn to stand by what the flag symbolizes;... | |
 | Howard Paul - American ballads and songs - 1857 - 144 pages
...launch'd again To dance o'er the merry water. OLD IRONSIDES.* OLIVER w. Houtss. AY tear her tatter'd ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; * Written when it was proposed to break op the frigate " Constitution," as unfit for service. Beneath... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 1. AY, tear her tatter'd ensign downM Long has it waved on high, And many a heart has danced to see That banner in the sky*; Beneath...battle-shout*, And burst the cannon's roar* : The meteor of the ocean-air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! 2. Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...ihlp, u unfit for • rvice. AT, tew her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And nuny an eye has danced to see that banner in the sky ; — Beneath it rang the battle-shout, and burst the cannon's roar ; The mefeor of the ocean air shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...HOLMES, AYE, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high ; . I NEW YORK SPEAKER. 133 And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 304 pages
...Ironsides ! From yon lone attic, on a summer's morn, Thus mocked the spoilers with his school-boy scon. AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...frigate Constitution WB* about to be broken up as unfit for service.] AT, tear her tattered ensign down l Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced...to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...forth by a rumor that the trispti* Constitution was about to be broken up as unfit for service.] 1 AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more.... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...CouutituUuu was about to be broken up as unlit for service.] 1 AY, tear her tattered ensign down I Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. 2 Her deck, once red with heroes' blood,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American poetry - 1864 - 444 pages
...Ironsides ! From yon lone attic, on a summer's morn, Thus mocked the spoilers with his school-boy scoru. AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds... | |
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Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her... 
