 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1863 - 390 pages
...dust-brown ranks stood fast. u Fire ! " — out blazed the rifle-blast It shivered the window, pane and sash ; It rent the banner with seam and gash....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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - Recitations - 1864 - 530 pages
...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....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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 422 pages
...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....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... | |
 | E. S. S. Rouse - United States - 1864 - 346 pages
...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 ;...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1864 - 188 pages
...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....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,... | |
 | United States - 1864 - 356 pages
...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....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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - Patriotic poetry, American - 1864 - 200 pages
...sight. " 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...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.... | |
 | 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 snatched the silken scarf ; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. " Shoot, if you... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...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....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... | |
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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... 
