Excerpt from Immortal Songs of Camp and Field: The Story of Their Inspiration Together With Striking Anecdotes Connected With Their History Flag of the brave Thy folds shall fly, The sign of hope and triumph high When speaks the signal trumpet tone And the long line comes gleaming on (ere yet the life-blood warm and wet Has dimmed the glistening bayonet), Each soldier eye shall brightly turn To where thy sky-born glories burn, And, as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance. And when the cannon mouthing cloud Heaves in wild wreaths the battle shroud, And gory sabres rise and fall, Like shoots of flame on midnight's pail; There shall thy meteor-glances glow, And cowering foes shall shrink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.