Today is Tuesday, June 14th, 2011; Karen's Korner #2087
Today is FLAG DAY!
THE FLAG
(Several stanzas)
By Julia Ward Howe
"There's a flag hangs over my threshold,
whose folds are more dear to me
Than the blood that thrills in my bosom
its earnest of liberty.
And dear are the stars its harbors
in its sunny field of blue
As the hope of a further heaven
that lights all our dim lives through.
"The flag of our stately battles,
not struggles of wrath and greed;
its stripes were a holy lesson,
its spangles a deathless creed;
'Twas red with the blood of freemen,
and white with the fear of the foe,
And the stars that fight in their courses
'gainst tyrants its symbols know.
"Pass hence, then, the friends I gathered,
a good company!
All ye that have manhood in you,
go, perish for Liberty!
But I and babes God gave me
will wait with uplifted hearts,
With the firm smile ready to kindle,
and the will to perform our parts."
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