They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
Swift—Polite Conversation. Dialogue II.
All's fish they get that cometh to net.
Tusser—Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. February Abstract. Gascoigne—Steele Glas.
Now at the close of this soft summer's day,
Inclined upon the river's flowery side,
I pause to see the sportive fishes play,
And cut with finny oars the sparkling tide.
Valdarne. In Thomas Fobsteb's Perennial Calendar.
FLAG
Uncover when the flag goes by, boys,
'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,
Flag famed in song and story
Long may it wave, old glory
The flag that has never known defeat.
Charles L. Benjamin and George D. SutThe Flag That Has Never Known
Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky:
Hats off!
The flag is passing by.
Henry H. Bennett—The Flag Goes By.
United States, your banner wears
Two emblems—one of fame;
Alas! the other that it bears
Reminds us of your shame.
Your banner's constellation types
White freedom with its stars,
But what's the meaning of the stripes?
They mean your negroes' scars.
Campbell—To the United States of North
America. (1838)
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That guard our native seas;
Whose flag has braved a thousand years,
The battle and the breeze!
Campbell—Ye Mariners of England.
Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout,
To all the winds Our Country's Banner!
Be every bar, and every star,
Displayed in full and glorious manner!
Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign
flying!
Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!
Abraham Coles—The Microcosm and other
Poems. P. 191.
If any one attempts to haul down the American
flag, shoot him on the spot.
John A. Drx—Speeches and Addresses. Vol.
II. P. 440. An Official Dispatch. Jan. 29,
1861.
When Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there.
Joseph Rodman Drake—The Croakers. The
American Flag. St. 1.
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 born in heaven.
Joseph Rodman Drake—The Croakers. The
American Flag. St. 5.
A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole,
It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.
'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the motheaten rag,
When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.
Gen. Sir E. Hamlet. Referring to the
Colors of the 43rd Monmouth Light Infantry.
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.
Holmes—A Metrical Essay.
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Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the God of storms,
The lightning and the gale.
Holmes—A Metrical Essay.
Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last
gleaming,
Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous
fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch 'd, were so gallantly
streaming;
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting
in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still
there!
CHORUS
Oh! say, does that star spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the
brave!
F. S. Key—Star-Spangled Banner.
To Anacreon in heaven, where he sat in full glee,
A few Sons of Harmony sent a petition,
That he their inspirer and patron would be.
Ralph Tomltnson—To Anacreon in Heaven.
Music by John Stafford Smith. Tune of
The Star-Spangled Banner (between 1770
and 1775) to which F. S. Key set his words.
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must when our cause it is just.
And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
