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 | American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...Constitution. The author's advice, happily for these times, was not followed. "OLD IRONSIDES. "Ay! pull her tattered ensign down, Long has it waved on high, And many a heart has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Boston (Mass.) - 1838 - 236 pages
...Cabinet, any susceptibility to the influences of lofty verse, it must have had a magic power there. " Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky ; Professors in the Divinity School. This gentleman is not unknown to fame, nor unworthy of the fame... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1895 - 634 pages
...the 'Constitution,' from being broken up as unfit for service : ' Ay, tear her battered ensign down 1 Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That ensign in the sky.' The burst of feeling which preserved ' Old Ironsides,' as the ship was familiarly... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...to the community is this institution !" Boston Transcript "OLD IRONSIDES."-BY ow HOLM».. Ar ! pull her tattered ensign down, Long has it waved on high, And many a heart has danced to see That banner in the sky i Beneath it rung the buttle shout, And burnt the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...breathed a sigh o'er others' dust, Might call a tear on mine. OLD IRONSIDES. AY, tear her tatter'd 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... | |
 | William McCarty - 1842 - 528 pages
...sell her timbers. The author is OLIVER W. HOLMES, of Cambridge, Massachuwtta, Av, tear her tatter'd 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, The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her... | |
 | William McCarty - National songs - 1842 - 484 pages
...sell her timbers. The author is OLIVER W. HOLMES, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Av, tear her tatter'd 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, The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...smile as I do now At the old forsaken bough 346 OLIVER W. HOLMES. OLD IRONSIDES." AT, tear her tatter'd 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1843 - 278 pages
...patience through life's little day, 13* OLD IRONSIDES.* BY OLIVER W. HOLMES. AT, tear her tatter'd 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 hattle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...patriotic lines. Would that the time had arrived when all weapons of war »ere only valuable as relics ! Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...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... | |
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