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 "A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall
 Which gave the Republic her station;
  "United we stand--divided we read more 
 "A song for our banner?"--The watchword recall
 Which gave the Republic her station;
  "United we stand--divided we fall!"
   It made and preserves us a nation! 
 Uncover when the flag goes by, boys,
 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,
  Flag fames in read more 
 Uncover when the flag goes by, boys,
 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,
  Flag fames in song and story
   Long may it wave, old glory
    The flag that has never known defeat. 
 Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
 By angel hands to valour given,
  Thy stars have read more 
 Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
 By angel hands to valour given,
  Thy stars have lit the welkin dome;
   And all thy hues were born in heaven. 
 When Freedom from her mountain height
 Unfurled her standard to the air,
  She tore the azure robe read more 
 When Freedom from her mountain height
 Unfurled her standard to the air,
  She tore the azure robe of night,
   And set the stars of glory there. 
 England! Whence came each glowing hue
 That hints your flag of meteor light,--
  The streaming red, the read more 
 England! Whence came each glowing hue
 That hints your flag of meteor light,--
  The streaming red, the deeper blue,
   Crossed with the moonbeams' pearly white?
    The blood, the bruise--the blue, the red--
     Let Asia's groaning millions speak;
      The white it tells of colour fled
       From starving Erin's pallid cheek. 
 A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole,
 It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.
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 A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole,
 It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.
  'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,
   When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag. 
 Your flag and my flag,
 And how it flies today
  In your land and my land
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 Your flag and my flag,
 And how it flies today
  In your land and my land
   And half a world away!
    Rose-red and blood-red
     The stripes forever gleam;
      Snow-white and soul-white--
       The good forefathers' dream;
        Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright--
         The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night. 
 The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced,
 Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.  
 The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced,
 Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. 
 United States, your banner wears
 Two emblems--one of fame;
  Alas! the other that it bears
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 United States, your banner wears
 Two emblems--one of fame;
  Alas! the other that it bears
   Reminds us of your shame.
    Your banner's constellation types
     White freedom with its stars,
      But what's the meaning of the stripes?
       They mean your negroes' scars.