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Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valor given; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valor given; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Joseph Rodman Drake
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote714 · printed citation: JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE: The American Flag.
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