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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08413.39 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Danesville, New York Type: Envelope Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 1 envelope. ; 14.7 x 8.8 cm. Order a Copy

featues flag coming out of water and poem

[Draft Created by Crowdsourcing]
Flag of the free heart's hope and home!
By angel hands to valor given,
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe, but falls before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us!

Edwin B. Lo[w]
Westport
Essex Co.
NY

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