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" And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag, "
Heart Throbs in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People and by Them ... - Page 176
by Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1905 - 436 pages
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 windowsill,...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 Fifth Reader: For the Use of Public and Private Schools

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 pages
...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,...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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 79

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...
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Patriotism in Poetry and Prose: Being Selected Passages from Lectures and ...

James Edward Murdoch, Thomas Buchanan Read - 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...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 Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier ...

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 422 pages
...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,...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...
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The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together ...

Robert Raikes Raymond - 1864 - 530 pages
...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,"...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
...leaned far out on the window sill, And shook it forth with a royal will : " Shoot, if yon must, the old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she...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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Pen-pictures of the War: Lyrics, Incidents, and Sketches of the Rebellion ...

1864 - 356 pages
...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,...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,...
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In War Time, and Other Poems

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864 - 188 pages
...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. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came ; The nobler nature within him...
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Die Sklavenmacht: Blicke in die Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von ...

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...
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