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" In her attic window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat, left and right, He glanced: the old flag met his sight. "Halt! "
For Which It Stands: An Anecdotal Biography of the American Flag - Page 100
by Michael Corcoran - 2007 - 192 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 79

Literature - 1863 - 652 pages
..."—out-blazed the rifle-blast It shivered the window, pane, and «ash ; 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...
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The Bugle Blast, Or, Spirit of the Conflict: Comprising Naval and Military ...

E. S. S. Rouse - United States - 1864 - 346 pages
...the men hauled down : In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet ; Up the street came the Rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson...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,...
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The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together ...

Robert Raikes Raymond - Recitations - 1864 - 530 pages
...his sight. " Halt!" — the dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire !''— out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent 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,...
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Patriotism in Poetry and Prose: Being Selected Passages from Lectures and ...

James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...Halt!"—the dust-brown ranks stood fast; "Fire!"—out.blazed the rifle-blast. It shiver'd the window-pane and sash, It rent the banner with seam 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 a royal will....
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The Wisconsin Farmer, Volume 16

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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Lessons in Elocution ...

A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...his sight. "Halt!" — the dust-brown ranks stood fast. '« Fire !" — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the...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 old gray head, — But...
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The Campaigns of the Seventeenth Maine

Edwin B. Houghton - United States - 1866 - 360 pages
...and right He glanced ; the old flag met his sight. ' Halt !' — the dust-brown ranks stood fast, 1 Fire !' — out blazed the rifle blast. It shivered...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 old gray head, But spare...
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One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose: Both New and Old ...

Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...Halt!"—the dust-brown ranks stood fast; "Fire!"—out blazed the rifle-blast. It shiver' d the window-pane and sash, It rent the banner with seam 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 a royal will....
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Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative and Satirical, of the Civil War

Richard Grant White - American poetry - 1866 - 368 pages
...his sight. " Halt ! " — the dust-brown ranks stood fast. " Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you must,...
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Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...sight. 14. " Halt ! "—the dust-brown ranks stood fast, " Fire !"— out blazed the rifle-blast. 15. It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash. 16. Quick as it fell from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; 17. She leaned...
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