 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it...gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. 4 A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 652 pages
...Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned fir <mt on the window-sill, And shook it furth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old...But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadncs*, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him stirred... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...and gash. Quick, as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatch'd the silken scarf. She lean'd far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with...face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirr'd To life at that woman's deed and word. " Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog!... | |
 | James Madison Watson - Calisthenics - 1864 - 434 pages
...flag met his sight. Quick, as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it...blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The noble nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 422 pages
...with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it...will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare.your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 356 pages
...with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it...forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this gray old head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, and a blush of shame,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 188 pages
...with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him... | |
 | Agriculture - 1864 - 448 pages
...beat!, But upare your country's fing," she said. A shade of sadness, a blnsh of ehame, Over the faco of the leader came-. The nobler nature within him stirred To life at llmt woman's doird and wort]. " Who touches a h«ir of yon gray head Dies like a dog I March on!" ho... | |
 | Theodor S Fay - 1865 - 168 pages
...gash. Quick, äs it feil from the broken staff, Dame Barbara suatch'd the silken scarf. She lean'd far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with...sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader camc; The nobler nature within him stirr'd To life at that woman's deed and word. „Who touches a... | |
 | 1865 - 594 pages
...flies through the streets of Frederick, and its effect upon that deluded but gallant soldier : — "The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that...woman's deed and word ; ' Who touches a hair of yon pray head Dies like a dog I March on'— he said." The illustrations are beautiful. "Volunteer Quartermaster:... | |
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It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you... 
