...IRONSIDES." [Written with reference to the proposed breaking up of the famous US frigate " Constitution."] . battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar : The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more...

...farthest sail unfurls, That stars and stripes are streaming o'er,—= God bless our Yankee girls ! OLD IRONSIDES, Ay, tear her tattered ensign down !...with heroes' blood Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's...

...conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. — From. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. 28 OLD IRONSIDES. AY, tear her tattered ensign down !...with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds werfa hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's...

...be broken up for scrap, an effective measure to save her was Oliver Wendell Holmes' stirring lines : "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved...of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more." On her decks are enshrined some of the proudest traditions of the American people. "Old Ironsides"...

...Charleston, Mass. Holmes wrote out this copy of the poem in the final weeks of the American Civil War. Old Ironsides. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!...Beneath it rung the battle shout, / And burst the cannons' roar; — /The meteor of the ocean air / Shall sweep the clouds no more! / victors' tread,...

...in the final weeks of the American Civil War. Old Ironsides. Ay, tear her tattered ensign dou>n! / Long has it waved on high,/ And many an eye has danced.../ Beneath it rung the battle shout,/ And burst the cannons' roar; — /The meteor of the ocean air / Shall sweep the clouds no more! / victors' tread,...

...fundamentalism, especially in its then Calvinist mode. Alas, there is no sign yet of such a collapse. Old Ironsides Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long...to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle-shout, And burst the cannon's roar: The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more!...

...Where I cling. (1. 43-48) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; FaBoBe; FaPON; NAAL-1; PoLF; PWR; WBLP Old Ironsides 17 e such by love; Call her one, me another fly. We're...too, and at our own cost die, And we in us find the (1. 1—4) 18 O, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the...

...scuttle her in 1830, but a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes whipped up public sentiment. The poem began: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. The Constitution still is a commissioned ship of the United States Navy, listed on the rolls as the...

...him honorary degrees. A complete edition of his poems appeared in 1895, the year following his death. OLD IRONSIDES Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long...many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; 5 Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall...