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Title: Story of the American flag with patriotic selections and incidents
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fallows, Samuel, Bp., 1835-1922, ed
Subjects: Flags -- United States Patriotism
Publisher: Boston (etc.) Educational publishing co
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The Old Flag, as we are pleased to term itâis notold as the years of nations are counted. A little span of an hun-dred years bridges the river of Time that rolls between the then andnow. But in that century of life is compassed more of humanprogress, more of grandeur and glory, than the world has witnessedsince the morning stars sang together. Young, as the hours arenumbered on a dial; full of years,- in the splendor of its matchlessfame. Born on a battlefield, an infant Hercules cradled on the brazenshield of Mars, the thunders of Saratoga sang its first lullaby. Itsyoung life lightened the gloom of Valley Forge and cheered thegreat heart of Washington: It learned the alphabet of glory, writ-ing with the sword on British hearts the names of Germantown,and Monmouth, and Cowpens, and Yorktown. In vigorous youth it answered the menace of its hereditary foewith the glories of Niagara and New Orleans, Eric and Champlain.It led a forlorn hope of gallant souls from the Rio Grande to the
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85 86 STORY OF THE AMERICAN FLAG. city of the Aztec kings, and on the plains of Mexico fluttered overthe old civilization like an eagle in a dove cote. And when this infant came of ageâWhy trace further the fortunesof the flag? There are heroes who have written the grandest pagesof its history in their blood; who have blazoned its every fold withgreat names and valorous deeds that will still live on when all ofus are mute. We saw its stars go down in darkness at Sumter. We watchedits varying fortunes through the night of war. Four ponderousyears its colors hung like an avenging Nemesis bathed in the luridclouds of battle. We saw it in the hour of victory, when the lastfield was won, scarred with the wounds of deadly strife; tatteredin the tempest of conflict; stained with the red record of battle. A flag of shreds and patches. Royalty in rags; but every inch aking! And when the light of that April morning irradiated its folds thelast shackle of bondage was melted in the fervent heat

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