| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
..."Fire!" — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash. It rent the -banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell from the broken...windowsill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness,... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken...window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. 4 A shade of sadness,... | |
| Literature - 1863 - 652 pages
..."—out-blazed the rifle-blast It shivered the window, pane, and Ğash ; It rent the banner with scam and gosh. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff 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 gray... | |
| United States - 1864 - 356 pages
...Fire !"— out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane, and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell from the broken...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,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 422 pages
...Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken...window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare.your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 188 pages
...Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken...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... | |
| James Madison Watson - Calisthenics - 1864 - 434 pages
...Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced : the old flag met his sight. Quick, as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara...window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But .spare your country's flag" she said. A shade of sadness,... | |
| E. S. S. Rouse - United States - 1864 - 346 pages
...fast. " Fire !" out blazed the rifle blast, 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. Pho leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will : " Shoot, if yon must,... | |
| Robert Raikes Raymond - Recitations - 1864 - 530 pages
...Fire !''— out blazed the rifle-blast. 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; " Shoot, if yon mnst, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness,... | |
| Agriculture - 1864 - 448 pages
...riflo blast. U shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent thebfiuner with seam and gaah. t Quick, KJ it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned for out on the window sill, And shook it forth with u royal will. " Shoot, If von must, this gray old... | |
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