. House of play; verses-rhymes-stories for young folks .. . partake;Let rocks their silence break—• The sound prolong. Our fathers God, to Thee,Author of liberty, To Thee we sing;Long may our land be brightWith freedoms holy light:Protect us by Thy might Great God, our King. —Samuel Francis Smith. THE NATIONAL FLAG. There is the national flag! He must be cold, indeed, whocan look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride ofcountry. If he be in a foreign land the flag is companionshipand country itself, with all its endearments. It has beencalled a floating piece of poetry, and yet I
. House of play; verses-rhymes-stories for young folks .. . partake;Let rocks their silence break—• The sound prolong. Our fathers God, to Thee,Author of liberty, To Thee we sing;Long may our land be brightWith freedoms holy light:Protect us by Thy might Great God, our King. —Samuel Francis Smith. THE NATIONAL FLAG. There is the national flag! He must be cold, indeed, whocan look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride ofcountry. If he be in a foreign land the flag is companionshipand country itself, with all its endearments. It has beencalled a floating piece of poetry, and yet I know not it ithave greater beauty than other ensigns. Its highest beautyis in what it symbolizes. It is because it represents all, thatall gaze at it with delight and reverence. It is a piece of bunt-ing lifted in the air, but it speaks sublimely, and every part hasa voice. Its stripes of alternate red and white proclaim theoriginal union of thirteen states to maintain the Declaration«t .independence. Its stars of white in a field of blue proclaim. fix. that union of States constituting our national constellation,which receives a new star with every state. The two togethersignify union, past and present. The very colors have alanguage which was officially recognized by our is for purity, red for valor, blue for justice; and all to-gether, bunting, stars, stripes, and colors, blazing in the sky,make the flag of our country—to be cherished by all our hearts,to be upteld by all our hands. —Charles Zumner*
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