New Britain herald., 1918-11-27

ooh1etIAleS d snake CfaWled there
about
The rule was stripes of red and white
Though red and blue did oft unite.
The Rise and Change of the
Grand Union Flag"
A flag to Philadelphia came
With the Grand Union" as it's name
1t was, in its symbolic plan
Both British and American.
Its thirteen stripes were white and
red
With Briton's canton at their head
| These thirteen stripes were made to
wave
, For thirteen colonies so brave
That they demand PREPARATION
without suggesting separation
And so our stripes, in union true,
Did bear the British union too.
In seventy-siE. on the first day,
our forces near old Boston lay.
And over them, beneath our sky
, That old Grand Union Flag did fly
! But after July of that year
That Union flag seemed rather queer.
For nigh one year we let it lag,
4 Then changed it to our nations flag.
It's British canton then tbs true
Consisted of red, white and blue,
| With one red cross, a white cross too,
, Together on a ground of blue.
| The stripes on the Grand Union
shown
Were like the stripes we since have
known.
! It's canton with its field of blue
We still retain, though charged anew.
The British crosses then gave way
For stars that came, and came to stay
Whence came those stars? No one
can tell
Unless they from the heaven fell
For centuries DER Turkeys throne
A crescent and a star were known.
Aside from this, throughout the world
No starry flag had been unfurled,
God made the stars in heaven to shine
AS emblems of His~1ight divine,
TO guide the wise men of the earth
In Christian ways to nations birth.
Nations that shall forever be
For God and world wide liberty
AS three in one, our colors stand
For independence in. our land
Our stripes as British subjects came
Our stars no earthly power can claim
Thus "In the name of God we' raised.
AS in the good old bible days
Our ensign on q mountain high
For all the people meath our sIky
The Colors of Our Flag.
The heavens above, forever true
Display at times, red, white and blue.
Hence for our flag we we'll may claim
From thence our stars and colors
came.
Our moi cOuntrV'S flaor said
Gave to our flag its British red
Red separated, as 1t WERE
Since We did separate from her,
And had her blood that served to fix
The spirit of old seventy-six
Ardent and warm, defiant too,
. With ultra revolution hue.
! Courage and love in red we find
! Which seeks the welfare of mankind
Red calls for blood to bring release
! From tyranny and give us peace
| White stands for Mercy'S overflow
! White that is w hitter than the snow
1t tells Of happiness and song
Where purity and joy belong.
The LeVites were in white arrayed
When they the harp and cymbals
played.
i Pure and unbIemished is our white,
Standing for peace, and love and right
Each stripe that on our flag we see
Shall ever stand for liberty.
j Blue is the color of the sky,
: Cerulean blue, azure on high.
1t is the sym Dol of Gods light
: As it is mixed with His pure white.
! The royalty of bible light
! Were oft arrayed in blue and white
Captins and rulers, clothed in blue.
: All of the old Assyrians knew
! Blue stands for strict integrity,
; Repentance, hope, fidelity.
! Our flag no mass of color shows,
j No dominating color knows
/ We mix SO well the three together
/ That each is tempered by the other.
| The sanguine red we modify