Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-12
RAISING TIE scHooL-HoUsE FLAG.

To-day the birthright of her hopes the younger
nation sings
As on the pinions Of the light the banner lifts its
wings,
To-day the future on us smiles, and studious la
bors cease,
To set the flag above the school our fortrasS
wall of peacei
War bugles old sstorm beating drums and
veterans Scared and true,
Ana children marching for the States, mid
roses wined with dew,
Behind ye thrice a hundred years before a
thousand grand,
WHAT says the past to you to-day, o children of
What are thy legends. o thou flag that glad
denest land and sea?
What is thy meaning in the air amid the
Flag of the sun that glows for all,
Flag OF the breeze that bows for all,
Flag OF the sea that flows for all,
Flag OF the school that stands for ali,
Flag OF the people, one and all
The peaceful bugles blow and blow across the
silver sea;
What is thy meaning in the air? o banner,
answer me-
No azure pavon old art thou. borne on the
Palmer spear;
No oriflamme of Red Cross Knight. or coiffured
cavalier;
No gold pomegranates of the sun burn on thy
silken cloud,
Nor Shamrock green nor Thistle red. nor Ram
pant Lion proud;
No burning bees on taifeta in gold and Grim
son wrought,
Nor eagle posing in the sky above the
Ocelot
No gaping dragons haunt thy folds as in the
white suns spray,
When western Vikings turn their prows from
noonless Norroway;
No double crowns beneath the cross are on
thy nues unfurled,
Such as the Prophet Pilot led toward the
sunset world
No artists vision, circlet-crowred, such as with
knightly pride
Old Balboa threw upon the air DER the Pacific
tide.
Not cen ST. Georges Cross is there that led
the Mayfower on,
Nor old ST. Andrews Cross of faith-the
Double Cross is gone
The peaceful bugles blow and blow across the
silver sea,
What is thy meaning, o thou flag, this day of
jubilee?
Flag of the free that shines for all,
Flag of the breeze that blows for all,
Flag of the sea that flows for all,
Flag of the school that stands for all,
Flag Of the people, one and all
what is thy meaning in the all? banner,
answer me-
0 children of the States, yon flag more happy
Than orifsmmnes of old Navarro or Cressy or
Rosebeq.
The Coyenanter's field of blue caught from the
clear sky, see,
And Lyras burning stars of peace and endless
unity.
Inc morning beams across il stream in roses
red and white
AS though twere outward rolled from
heaven by angels of the light.
All nan to thee, celestial flag, on this prophetic
That minglest with the LIGHT of heaven the
morn's eternal ray.
The peaceful bugles blow and blow across
the silver sea,
And speakest thou to every soul the worlds
great jubileei
IrIaox 80 a. ..a..1.
folds stands,
While gyveless Freedom lifts to thee her choral
trumpets grand
Thou standst for Monmouths march of fire, for
Trenton's lines of flame,
For ripping Eutaws field of blood for York
towns endless fame;
For Cape de Gait, and fierce Algiers, and
Perry blood red deck,
For Vera Cruz, and Monterey, and white
Chapuitepec;
Thou stand'st for Sumter's broken wall, as high
above Tybee
The shouting forts uplift again the stars of
unity;
Thou standst that all the rights ofmen may
every people bless,
And Gods own kingdom walk the world in
peace and righteousness!
Inc silver bugles blow and blow across the
silver sea,
And 50 thou speaks, to every soul this day Of
jubilee.
Q my America whose flag we throne amid the
Beneath whose folds it's life to live and noblest
death to die,
hear the peaceful bugles blow across the silver
sea,
And bless my God my palace stands cottage
home TO thee
So speak the voices of the Past, We children
of the land,
Behind us thrice an hundred years, before
thousand grand,
spch are the LEGENDS of yon flag that gladdens
land and sea,
Such is the Hand that scrolls the air this day of
jubilee
Flag of sun that shines for all,
Flag of the breeze that blows for all,
Flag of the sea that flows for all,
Flag of the school that stands for all,
Flag of the people. one and all
Hail, flag of Liberty all hall
Hail. glorious years to come
-He-ekiah Buter,oorth, in Youths Companion