 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 páginas
...forth by a rumor that the trispti* Constitution was about to be broken up as unfit for service.] 1 AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. 2 Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, AVhcn winds were hurrying... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1864 - 444 páginas
...Ironsides ! From yon lone attic, on a summer's morn, Thus mocked the spoilers with his school-boy scoru. AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - 1865 - 194 páginas
...connection that I will take the liberty of making the" verse speak for itself. AY, tear her tatter'd ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many...the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with hero's blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the... | |
 | 1865 - 564 páginas
...dooms one to those dreadful words, — " My dear. where have you been ?" THE OLD CONSTITUTION. \ Y, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...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 the clouds no more... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1866 - 174 páginas
...brother : " When your attempts to injure fail, Complain not if your victim rail." OLD Hi ON SIDES. AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 páginas
...was popularly called " Old Ironsides." Most of the lines require full, round, pure, ringing tones : Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...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 the clouds no more!... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 372 páginas
...was popularly called " Old Ironsides." Most of the lines require full, round, pure, ringing tones : Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...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 the clouds no more... | |
 | 1870 - 588 páginas
...body. In this way an audience has seen declaimed the opening lines of Dr. Holmes's beautiful poem " Old Ironsides:" — "Ay, tear her tattered ensign...an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky," etc. VII. PES — WHAT THE FOOT SAID. SISTER MANUS did me great injustice. I had no idea of hurrying... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 páginas
..." Constitution," so famed in the war of 1812 for her victories over the " Guerriere " and "Java" : OLD IRONSIDES. AY, tear her tattered ensign down !...the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more! Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 páginas
..." From yon lone attic, on a summer's morn, Thus mocked the spoilers with his schoolboy scorn : — Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...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 Her deck, once red with heroes'... | |
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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; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her... 
