Envelope
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06627.03.077 Author/Creator: Place Written: [various places] Type: Envelope Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: Envelope ; 8 x 13.9 cm. Order a Copy
The envelope has the poem Union Forever on it surrounded by a styalized boarder.
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UNION FOREVER.
Perish the hand that would destroy
The temple of our sires!
Perish the heart that hopes for joy
In its consuming fires!
Let not the monster be forgot
Who dares to light the flame;
But curse him with a traitor's lot,
And with a traitor's name.
Our fainting hopes refuse to die,
Our tottering bulwarks stand,
And freedom's banner still floats high
O'er a nuited land!
The stars that gem its azure folds
May cease awhile to shine,
But tremble not! the arm that holds
The flagstaff is Divine.
While the dark raven bodes despair,
And still our fear renews,
The noble eagle, high in air,
His onward way pursues.
He dreads not the tempest's wrath,
Though all its thunders roll,
But soars above the tempest's path,
Exulting to the goal.
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