She's up there—Old Glory—where lightnings are sped;
She dazzles the nations with ripples of red;
And she'll wave for us living, or droop o'er us dead—
The flag of our country forever!
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"Our Flag Forever", st. 1. R. L. Paget (ed.) Poems of American Patriotism (Boston: L. C. Page & Co., 1898) p. 36. Variant, titled "The Flag of Our Country", in Comes One with a Song (Indianapolis and Kansas City: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1899) p. 146
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She's up there—Old Glory—she's waving o'erhead;
She dazzles the nations with ripples of red,
And she'll wave for us living, or droop o'er us dead—
She's the flag of our country forever!