 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 sider
...freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. A Metrical Essag. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That bauner in the sky. Ibid. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 sider
...asunder, And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. TIRY LOUD FORCE. [OLD mOXSIBES.— HOLMES.] Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high ; And many an eye has danced to Bee That banner in the sky ; Beneath It rung the battle-shoot, And burst the cannon's roar; The meteor... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1866 - 526 sider
...forth by a rumor that the frigate Constitution was about to be broken up as unlit for service.] 1 AT, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. 2 Her deck, once red with heroes' blood,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 sider
...was popularly called " Old Ironsides." Most of the lines require full, round, pure, ringing tones : Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 sider
...was popularly called " Old Ironsides." Most of the lines require full, round, pure, ringing tones : Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more!... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 374 sider
...high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more I Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, "When winds were hurrying... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 sider
...freeman casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. A Metrical Essay. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. A Metrical Essay. Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God... | |
 | 1870 - 588 sider
...audience has seen declaimed the opening lines of Dr. Holmes's beautiful poem " Old Ironsides:" — "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down, Long has it waved...an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky," etc. VII. PES — WHAT THE FOOT SAID. SISTER MANUS did me great injustice. I had no idea of hurrying... | |
 | David Macrae - 1870 - 428 sider
...Essay " delivered before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society, and began — '* Ay, tear her batter'd ensign down, Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky." And so on to the grandest verse of all— " O better that her shatter'd hulk Should sink beneath the... | |
 | Philip Lawrence - 1870 - 422 sider
...or to convert her into a receiving-ship, a* unlit lor service. AY, tear her tatter'd ensign down I Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rang the battle shout And burst the cannon's roar: The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds... | |
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AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; — Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her... 
