 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 Household Book of Poetry - Page 375by Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 28 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1897 - 272 pages
...valor of your descendants will keep it so forever. " When freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave unto his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Forever float that... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...if I could ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. THE AMERICAN FLAG. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...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... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...Sail, To smile away them all. THE AMERICAN FLAG. I. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...celestial white, With streakings of the morning light ; M Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand,... | |
 | 1836 - 802 pages
...Comparison. When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure rohe of night And set the stars of glory there. She mingled...into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Let us reduce all this to plain English, and we have — what 1 Why, a flag, consisting of the " azure... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there ! She mingled with its gorgeous dyei The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure,...into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land 1 Majestic monarch of the cloud 1 Who rear's! aloft thy regal form, To hear the tempest trumping loud,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman - American literature - 1837 - 278 pages
...AMERICAN FLAG. BY JH DRAKE. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric...into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Majestic monarch of the cloud. Who rear'st aloft thy regal form, To hear the tempest trumpings loud... | |
 | Oratory - 1840 - 452 pages
...perpetually. XLV. To Ike American Flag.—DKHEZ AND HAIXECK, WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...skies, And striped its pure celestial white, With Btreukingti from the morning light! Then, from her mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...well." 166 TO THE AMERICAN FLAG. BY JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurl'd her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...And striped its pure celestial white With streakings from the morning light! Then, from her mansion in the sun, She call'd her eagle bearer down, And gave... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...long loved in thy wild minstrelsy. THE AMERICAN FLAG. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurl'd her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of...skies, And striped its pure, celestial white, With streamings of the morning light ; Then from his mansion in the sun She call'd her eagle bearer down,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 558 pages
...voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy. THE AMERICAN FLAG. Freedom from her mountain height UnfurI'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. n. . Majestic... | |
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