 | United States. Office of Education - 1942
...milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valour given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome. And all thy hues were horn in heaven. Forever float... | |
 | Daughters of the American Revolution - 1897
...milky fabric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel...given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 2008 - 238 pages
...said]). Gansevoort also quoted Joseph Rodman Drake's "The American Flag" ("Flag of the free heart's only home, /By angel hands to valor given, /Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, /And all thy hues were born in Heaven"). He quoted Halleck's "beautiful lines to the memory of Burns," followed... | |
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Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. 
