 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...connection that I will take the liberty of making the verso Bpeak for itself. Ar, tear her tatter'd ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see Beneath it rung the battle shout And burst the cannon's roar: The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - Patriotism - 1865 - 194 pages
...connection that I will take the liberty of making the" verse speak for itself. AY, tear her tatter'd ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many...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.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. A Metrical Essag. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That bauner in the sky. Ibid. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1866 - 174 pages
...brother : " When your attempts to injure fail, Complain not if your victim rail." OLD Hi ON SIDES. AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...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 - 1866 - 526 pages
...forth by a rumor that the frigate Constitution was about to be broken up as unlit for service.] 1 AT, tear her tattered ensign down ! 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,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...asunder, And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. TIRY LOUD FORCE. [OLD mOXSIBES.— HOLMES.] Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high ; And many an eye has danced to Bee That banner in the sky ; Beneath It rung the battle-shoot, And burst the cannon's roar; The meteor... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 374 pages
...OLD IRONSIDES. OLIVER W. HOLMES. The following brief poem was written by Dr. OW Holmes, when it ivas proposed to dismantle the celebrated United States...meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more I Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, "When winds were hurrying... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. A Metrical Essay. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. A Metrical Essay. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God... | |
 | Theology - 1870 - 588 pages
...audience has seen declaimed the opening lines of Dr. Holmes's beautiful poem " Old Ironsides:" — "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down, Long has it waved...an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky," etc. VII. PES — WHAT THE FOOT SAID. SISTER MANUS did me great injustice. I had no idea of hurrying... | |
 | David Macrae - United States - 1870 - 428 pages
...Essay " delivered before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society, and began — '* Ay, tear her batter'd ensign down, Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky." And so on to the grandest verse of all— " O better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the... | |
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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... 
