Quotes about flag, page 35
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
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poem by Walt Whitman
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When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.
quote by Huey Long
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Success is counted sweetest
I.
SUCCESS.
SUCCESS is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear.
poem by Emily Dickinson from Poems (1890)
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Many Soldiers
The idea danced before us as a flag;
The sound of martial music;
The thrill of carrying a gun;
Advancement in the world on coming home;
A glint of glory, wrath for foes;
A dream of duty to country or to God.
But these were things in ourselves, shining before us,
They were not the power behind us,
Which was the Almighty hand of Life,
Like fire at earth’s centre making mountains,
Or pent up waters that cut them through.
Do you remember the iron band
The blacksmith, Shack Dye, welded
Around the oak on Bennet’s lawn,
From which to swing a hammock,
That daughter Janet might repose in, reading
On summer afternoons?
And that the growing tree at last
Sundered the iron band?
But not a cell in all the tree
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poem by Edgar Lee Masters
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I can't tell people what flag to fly.
quote by Lesley Stahl
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wind
talking
in the flag’s voice
haiku by Dónall Dempsey
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Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
quote by George M. Cohan
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
quote by Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.
quote by Omar Torrijos Herrera
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I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.
quote by Franklin Knight Lane
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