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" But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on! "
Pen-pictures of the War: Lyrics, Incidents, and Sketches of the Rebellion ... - Page 18
1864 - 344 pages
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The Fifth Reader: For the Use of Public and Private Schools

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 pages
...Shoot, if you must, this old 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 him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 79

1863 - 652 pages
...Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, 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 To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon...
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The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier ...

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 422 pages
...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 came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon...
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The Bugle Blast, Or, Spirit of the Conflict: Comprising Naval and Military ...

E. S. S. Rouse - 1864 - 346 pages
...Shoot, if yon must, the 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 came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : "Who touches a hair of yon...
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In War Time, and Other Poems

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 188 pages
...; 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 stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon...
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Patriotism in Poetry and Prose: Being Selected Passages from Lectures and ...

James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - 1864 - 200 pages
...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 came; The nobler nature within him stirr'd To life at that woman's deed and word. " Who touches a hair of yon...
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The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together ...

Robert Raikes Raymond - 1864 - 530 pages
...Shoot, if yon mnst, 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 came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : " Who touches a hair of yon...
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The United States service magazine, Volume 4

1865 - 594 pages
...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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Lessons in Elocution ...

A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 pages
...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 came ; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word. " Who touches a hair of yon...
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The Campaigns of the Seventeenth Maine

Edwin B. Houghton - 1866 - 360 pages
...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 came ; . The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word : 1 Who touches a hair of yon...
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