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

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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 blue.

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