<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Union and Liberty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FLAG of the heroes who left us their glory,<br> Borne through their battle-fields' thunder and flame,<br> Blazoned in song and illumined in story,<br> Wave o'er us all who inherit their fame! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Up with our banner bright,<br> Sprinkled with starry light,<br> Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore,<br> While through the sounding sky<br> Loud rings the Nation's cry,<br> UNION AND LIBERTY! ONE EVERMORE!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Light of our firmament, guide of our Nation,<br> Pride of her children, and honored afar,<br> Let the wide beams of thy full constellation<br> Scatter each cloud that would darken a star! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Up with our banner bright,<br> Sprinkled with starry light,<br> Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore,<br> While through the sounding sky<br> Loud rings the Nation's cry,<br> UNION AND LIBERTY! ONE EVERMORE!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Empire unsceptred! what foe shall assail thee,<br> Bearing the standard of Liberty's van?<br> Think not the God of thy fathers shall fail thee,<br> Striving with men for the birthright of man! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Up with our banner bright,<br> Sprinkled with starry light,<br> Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore,<br> While through the sounding sky<br> Loud rings the Nation's cry,<br> UNION AND LIBERTY! ONE EVERMORE!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Yet if, by madness and treachery blighted,<br> Dawns the dark hour when the sword thou must draw,<br> Then with the arms of thy millions united,<br> Smite the bold traitors to Freedom and Law! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Up with our banner bright,<br> Sprinkled with starry light,<br> Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore,<br> While through the sounding sky<br> Loud rings the Nation's cry,<br> UNION AND LIBERTY! ONE EVERMORE!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Lord of the Universe! shield us and guide us,<br> Trusting Thee always, through shadow and sun!<br> Thou hast united us, who shall divide us?<br> Keep us, oh keep us the MANY IN ONE! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Up with our banner bright,<br> Sprinkled with starry light,<br> Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore,<br> While through the sounding sky<br> Loud rings the Nation's cry,<br> UNION AND LIBERTY! ONE EVERMORE!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472645" data-title="Union and Liberty de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="FLAG of the heroes who left us their glory, Borne through their battle-fields' thunder and flame, Blazoned in song and illumined in story, Wave o'er us all who inherit their fame! Up with our banner bright, Sprinkled with starry light, Spr..."></div> </div> </div>

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