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Show UNDER THE FLAG (By FLORENCE EARLE COATES.) Under our own flag still we sail her, Gallantly sail her, our own ship of state; Faiths wo have lived by still shall avail her. Hope at her prow, wing'd, expectant, elatel Over the deeps of a perilous ocean, Honor compelling, we still will sail on; Giving, unfearing, a loyal devotion, Until in life, in death, danger is gone. Deem not that we. whom our fathers before us Taught to love freedom and died to make free, Cowards shall fly, while the heavens are o'er us, Craft of the ether or boats under sea. There is in valor that hearkens to duty Something that dearer may be than long years; And in man's service there may be a beauty Higher than glory and deeper than tears. |