tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79687464819944304282011-07-08T06:27:29.415-07:00Mary Erwin, Bethany's Poetess of the Nineteenth CenturyLindanoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7968746481994430428.post-66372273423332873872009-11-11T06:26:00.000-08:002009-11-11T06:28:18.031-08:00<div class="snap_preview"> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><span>Fling Out the Flag.</span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;">by Mary E. Erwin</span><br /></span></p> <p><span>Fling out the flag and let it wave<br />From swelling dome and rising spire -<br />The starry banner of the brave,<br />Lighting the land with points of fire.<br />It is the flag our heroes bore<br />In triumph through the battle’s blast.<br />Though scorched with flame and stained with gore<br />It waves in triumph form its masts.</span></p> <p><span>That flag the symbol of the free<br />Has dawned upon the nation’s night<br />Like sunrise on a stormy sea,<br />Whose billows kiss the morning light.<br />Its starlit folds, baptized with blood,<br />Shall guide the hosts of heroes now,<br />As fiery pillar o’er the flood<br />Led Israel up from deeps below.<br />*</span></p><p><span>published in:</span></p><p><span>Republican Advocate<br /></span></p><p><span>– Batavia NY</span></p><p><span>June 2-1863.</span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7968746481994430428-6637227342333287387?l=maryerwinhobbs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Lindanoreply@blogger.com0