The Stars of Our Country: A Collection of PoemsNational Press, 1917 - 124 pages |
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band Banks Winter beautiful Beneath borne Brave Indiana breeze Buffalo Bill Chiquita Columbia Congress DAKOTA dark Missouri's Dear Indiana dear Tennessee fair fight flag forest Francis Scott Key Freedom's German Government gleaming glorious Glory's dwelling gold golden grace heart heroes hills honor hosanna Hurrah Indians JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Joseph Hopkinson Julia Ward Juneau JUNO FROM JUNEAU King King Cotton liberty Little Rhody live loyal marching Maryland Mexico mighty MOLLY PITCHER nations never nickname O'er the land old Georgia Old Glory peace Pennsylvania PIERRE LACLEDE plains preserve thee free PRESIDENT WILSON'S ring river SEAL shines sing sisterhood skies song Sons of Illinois South South Dakota stand star-spangled banner stars story stream strong Texas thine things Thou thy mountains true Union valleys Virginia Washington white and blue wild William Allen White WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT VISSCHER WILSON'S GREAT MESSAGE
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Page 11 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps...
Page 10 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song; Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong. Our father's God, to Thee, Author of liberty, To Thee we sing; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King...
Page 117 - GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS: I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making. On the third of February last I officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and after the first day of February it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of...