ACROSTIC-OUR FLAG

 

ACROSTIC- OUR FLAG 

Arranged by INEZ MCTEE 

Each child carries a letter which is held aloft while speaking, and then fastened on the breast.

O-  fold of white and scarlet! O blue field with your silver stars! May fond eyes welcome you, willing feet follow you, strong hands defend you, warm hearts cherish, you and dying lips give you their blessing! Ours by inheritance, ours by allegiance, our by affection- long may you float on the free winds of heaven the emblem of liberty, the hope of the world! 

Selected  

Up with the banner bright, 

Sprinkled with starry light, 

Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore, 

While through the sounding sky 

Loud rings the nation's cry- 

Union and Liberty! One Evermore! 

O. W. Holmes 

R ed says, "Be brave;" 

White says, "Be pure;" 

Blue says, "Be true," 

Selected 

F lag of the free hearts hope and home, 

By angel's hand to valor given; 

Thy stars have lit the welkin dome 

And all thy hues were born in heaven. 

Drake 

L et the National flag float over every schoolhouse in the country, and the exercises be such as shall press upon our youth the patri otic duties of American citizens. 

Benjamin Harrison

A song for our banner? The watchword recall 

Which gave the Republic her station; 

United we stand, divided we fall! 

It made and preserved us a nation. 

Morris  

G od bless our stars forever, 

It is liberty's refrain. 

Anon 

References:

2.4 NOV1914 MEMORIAL DAY May Thirtieth 1914