 Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye.  The National Register - Page 3521819Full view - About this book
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...iv. Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave; When death, careering ou the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, And...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...glances glow, And cowering foes shall fall beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean's...wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee ; And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake, Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1860 - 218 pages
...arm that strikes below, The lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave Thy star shall glitter o'er the brave, When Death, careering...sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broad-sides reeling rack, The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look, at once, to heaven and thee, And... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Flags - 1861 - 24 pages
...shall thy meteor-glances glow, And cowering foes shall sink beneath T II EAME RICA NFL Л (J . IV. Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave, Thy stars shall...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | Edward Chauncey Marshall - Annapolis (Md.) - 1862 - 188 pages
...and martyrs and heroes of old. So dies the naval commander, in defence of the flag of his country ! " Flag of the seas ! on ocean's wave, Thy stars shall...wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | Edward Chauncey Marshall - History - 1862 - 188 pages
...heroes of old. So dies the naval commander, in defence of the flag of his country ! " Flag of the seas I on ocean's wave, Thy stars shall glitter o'er the...wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack, . Bach dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o er the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps...rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o er the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellicd sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying wanderer... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. 4. Flag of the seas ! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When...rush wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack ; Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thoe. And smile to see thy splendors... | |
 | Tammany Society, or Columbian Order (New York, N.Y.) - 1863 - 318 pages
...glances glow, And cowering foes shall fall beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death ! Flag of the seas ! on ocean's...death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the swelling sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the broadside's reeling rack, Each dying... | |
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