America : our national hymn . THE FLAG IN NATURE. All nature sings wildly the song of the free,The red, white and blue float oer land and oer sea,The white — in each billow that breaks on the shore,The blue—in the arching that canopies oerThe land of our birth, in its glory outspread —And sunset dyes deepen and glow into red;Day fades into night, and the red stripe retires,But stars oer the blue light their sentinel fires;And though night be gloomy, with clouds overspread,Each star holds its place in the field overhead;When scatter the clouds and the tempest is through,We count every star in t
America : our national hymn . THE FLAG IN NATURE. All nature sings wildly the song of the free,The red, white and blue float oer land and oer sea,The white — in each billow that breaks on the shore,The blue—in the arching that canopies oerThe land of our birth, in its glory outspread —And sunset dyes deepen and glow into red;Day fades into night, and the red stripe retires,But stars oer the blue light their sentinel fires;And though night be gloomy, with clouds overspread,Each star holds its place in the field overhead;When scatter the clouds and the tempest is through,We count every star in the field of the THE FLAG. Wave the new flag, exultant, oer the land, Spread out its folds of beauty toward the sea; Bid softest winds its blood-bought charms expand;Hail it with shouts — the banner of the free. Bears it the brilliant stripes of spotless white ? Our cause is righteous and our aim is pure; Bears it the red ? — We battle for the right— Red blood may flow, but freedom shall endure. Bears it the blue ? — To heaven our high appealIn Christian gratitude and faith we raise; And every star—a new-made State — shall sealOur fervent trust in God, our joyful praise. Count all the stars, the stripes both white and red,Whereer on sea or land the flag is seen, They tell how God our growing States has led —Stars, ever more; and stripes, the old thirteen. Wave, then, fair banner—men may pass away,No mind can guess the changes yet to be ; But thou, in beauty hold thy blessed way,Our flag of peace — our symbol of the free.
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