Lines For A Flag Raising Ceremony Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFG HIHIJKJKLMLC NONOPQPQKRKR STSTININDLDL| FULL many a flag the breeze has kissed | A |
| Through ages long the morning sun | B |
| Has risen over the early mist | A |
| The flags of men to look upon | C |
| And some were red against the sky | D |
| And some with colors true were gay | E |
| And some in shame were born to die | D |
| For Flags of hate must pass away | E |
| Such symbols fall as men depart | F |
| Brief is the reign of arrant might | G |
| The vicious and the vile at heart | F |
| Give way in time before the right | G |
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| A flag is nothing in itself | H |
| It but reflects the lives of men | I |
| And they who lived and toiled for pelf | H |
| Went out as vipers in a den | I |
| God cleans the sky from time to time | J |
| Of every tyrant flag that flies | K |
| And every brazen badge of crime | J |
| Falls to the ground and swiftly dies | K |
| Proud kings are mouldering in the dust | L |
| Proud flags of ages past are gone | M |
| Only the symbols of the just | L |
| Have lived and shall keep living on | C |
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| So long as we shall serve the truth | N |
| So long as honor stamps us fair | O |
| Each age shall pass unto its youth | N |
| Old Glory proudly flying there | O |
| But if we fail our splendid past | P |
| If we prove faithless weak and base | Q |
| That age shall be our banner's last | P |
| A fairer flag shall take its place | Q |
| This flag we fling unto the skies | K |
| Is but an emblem of our hearts | R |
| And when our love of freedom dies | K |
| Our banner with our race departs | R |
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| Full many a flag the breezes kiss | S |
| Full many a flag the sun has known | T |
| But none so bright and fair as this | S |
| None quite so splendid as our own | T |
| This tells the world that we are men | I |
| Who cling to manhood's ways and truth | N |
| It is our soul's great voice and pen | I |
| The strength of age the guide of youth | N |
| And it shall ever hold the sky | D |
| So long as we shall keep our trust | L |
| But if our love of right shall die | D |
| Our Flag shall sink into the dust | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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