"Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!"
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Abraham Coles, The Microcosm and other Poems, p. 191.
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