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The meteor flag of England.— CAMPBELL — Ye Mariners of England.

Ye mariners of England! 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. DIX — Speeches and Addresses. Vol. II. P. 440. An Official

Dispatch. Jan. 29, 1861. 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. 6.

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air.— JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE — The Croakers. The American Flag. St. 1.

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.— O. W. HOLMES — A Metrical Essay.

Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms, The lightning and the gale.— O. W. HOLMES — A Metrical Essay.

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.— F. S. KEY — The Star-Spangled Banner.

Under spread ensigns moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. VI. L. 533.

Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras.— MILTON — Comus. L. 604.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.— MOORE — To the Lord Viscount Forbes.

"A song for our banner?"— The watchword

recall Which gave the Republic her station; "United we stand-divided we fall!" It made and preserves us a nation!— GEORGE P. MORRIS — The Flag of Our

Union. The flag of our Union forever!— GEORGE P. MORRIS — The Flag of Our

Union. A garish flag, To be the aim of every dangerous shot.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 89.

This token serveth for a flag of truce Betwixt ourselves and all our followers.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 138.

Banner of England, not for a season, O banner of Britain, hast thou Floated in conquering battle or flapt to the battle-cry! Never with mightier glory than when we had rear'd thee on high, Flying at top of the roofs in the ghastly siege of Lucknow- Shot thro' the staff or the halyard, but ever we raised thee anew, And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of England blew.— TENNYSON — The Defence of Lucknow.

Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.— DANIEL WEBSTER — Address on Laying

the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. Works. Vol. I. P. 62. A star for every State, and a State for every star. S.— ROBERT C. WINTHROP — Address on

Boston Common. 1862.