<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383763" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Flag of the Free</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis the streamer of England - it floats o'er the brave-<br>'Tis the fairest unfurled o'er the land or the wave;<br>But though brightest in story and matchless in fight,<br>'Tis the heralds of Mercy as well as of Might.<br>In the cause of the wronged may it ever be first-<br>When tyrants are humbled and fetters are burst:<br>Be 'Justice' the war-shout, and dastard is he<br>Who would scruple to die 'neath the Flag of the Free!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It may trail o'er the halyards-a bullet-torn rag,<br>Or flutter in shreds from the battlement-crag;<br>Let the shot whistle through it as fast as it may,<br>Till it sweep the last glorious tatter away.<br>What matter! we'd hoist the blue jacket on high<br>Or the soldier's red sash from the spearhead should fly:<br>Though it were but a riband, the foeman should see<br>The proud signal and own it-the Flag of the Free!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have we ever looked out from a far foreign shore,<br>To mark the gay pennon each passing ship bore;<br>And watch'd every speck that arose from the foam,<br>In hope of glad tidings from country and home?-<br>Has our straining eye caught the loved colours at last.<br>And seen the dear bark bounding on to us fast?<br>Then, then have our hearts learnt how precious can be<br>The fair streamer of England-the Flag of the Free!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eliza+Cook">Eliza Cook</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=383763" data-title="The Flag of the Free de Eliza Cook" data-description="'Tis the streamer of England - it floats o'er the brave- 'Tis the fairest unfurled o'er the land or the wave; But though brightest in story and matchless in fight, 'Tis the heralds of Mercy as well as of Might. In the cause of the wronged may it e..."></div> </div> </div>

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