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46 THE UNFURLING OF THE FLAG

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There's a streak across the sky line

That is gleaming in the sun,

Watchers from the light-house towers

Signaled it to foreign Powers

Just as daylight had begun,

Message thrilling,

Hopes fulfilling

To those fighting o'er the seas.

"It's the flag we've named Old Glory

That's unfurling to the breeze."

Can you see the flashing emblem

Of our Country's high ideal?

Keep your lifted eyes upon it

And draw joy and courage from it,

For it stands for what is real,

Freedom's calling

To the falling

From oppression's hard decrees.

It's the flag we've named Old Glory

You see floating in the breeze.

Glorious flag we raise so proudly,

Stars and stripes, red, white and blue,

You have been the inspiration

Of an ever-growing nation