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HE FLAG of the United States is now 135 years old.
It was adopted by” Congress on J1me 14,1777; With
the followmg resolution.
“Resolved that the Flag of the United States be thirteen
‘ ‘str1pes, alternate roll and white, and Ithat the Union be thir-
teen. eta-rs, white in a blue field, representing a new constel-
'lation.’L HI It is said to have been first unfurled to the breeze
July 7, 177 7 at the battIe of Ticonderoga, and August 6th,
of the same year, Over Fort StanW1x. I These points are some-
It is Said that the
first to fly the Star Spangled Banner on the sea, under the
command Of John Paul J ones, sailing from Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, November 15th,1778
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The poem to the Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake is one of the most
famous tributes, and is entitled “The American Flag”
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I When Freedom 'ii-afmher mountain
height .
Unfurleé her standard to the air.
I She tore the azure robe of night,
Ami Set stars of glory there;
She Iningl‘ed with its gorgeous- dyes,
. The milky halting biIIIth-e skies,
Ami striped its pure, celestial white
With 1, streakings of the morning
jlight;
Then 'from his mansion in the sun
She called her eagle bearer down.
And gave into his mighty hand
The Symbol of her chosen land.
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Majestic monarch oi the cloud!
Who rear 'st aloft thy regal form,
Tohear thetempest- -trumpings loud.
And see the lighting lances driven,
When strive the warriors of the
storm,
And rolls the thunder-drum of
heaven-—
BeloW are the 48
Chilé‘ oi the sun! to thee 't is given
To guard the banner of the free,
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
To were away the battle-stroke
Ami hit! its blending: shine afar,
Lil:e rainbows 0n the cloud of war.
The hammered victory! . I, 1.,
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Flag of the brave, thy folds shall
fly,
The sign of hope and triumph
high,
When speaks the signal trumpet
tone. ‘
And the long line comes gleam-
in; on;
Ere yet the life-blood warm and
wet,
Has dimmed the glistening hay-
onet,
'Each soldier eye shall brightly turn
To where thy sky-born glories
. burn, ~
And, as his springing stem advance.
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Catch war and vengeance i. om
. the glance;
And when the cannon-mouthings
. loud . "
, Heave in wild wreathes the "hat-
tie shroud .
And gory satires rise and fall.
Like shoots of flame on midnight s“
pail;
Then shall thy meteor-glances
glow.
And covvering foes shall sink
beneath
Each gallant arm that striles
below
That lovely messenger of death.
IV .. ,.
Flag of the seas! on ocean wave
Thy stars shall glitter o'er the
brave;
When death: 'careerlng on the sale,
Sweeps darkly ’round the bellied
sail,» '
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And irighted waves rush willily
ghack
Before .the hroadslde‘s reeling.
rack,
Each dying wanderer of the sea
Shell look at once to heaven and
thee,
it And smile to seat-lily splendors fly I
J . In triumph 0' er his closing eye.
V ..
Flag of the free heart's hope and
home
By angel hands to veto"? given;
The stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in
heaven.
Foxever float that standard sheet!»
Where breathes the foe but falls
* before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our
feet,
And Freedom’s banner streaming
o’er us?
States, represented by the 48 stars in the field of the Flag
:Massachusetts I L,
gelaivare Vermont
. ennsylvania
THE New Jersey gggfiggre};
.. Georgia , Ohio .~
puissant Connecticut Louisiana
. I Indiana
Mississippi
Michigan
Florida
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Colorado-
Nerth Dakota
Seuth Dakota
Montana
Washington
Idaho ‘ . ‘[
Wyoming
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