THE FLAG IN THE DARKNESS
BENJAMIN HARRISON
I was never so profoundly touched with the beauty of our flag as at night time in one of our immense political demonstrations. One of the features of the occasion was the sending upward of a mighty stream of electric light which, piercing the darkness of the night, reached a large flag which had been carried on cords a thousand feet from the earth. The scene was too impressive for me to describe. I can only say that it did seem as though the flag of our country was waving from the very battlements of heaven.... God pity the American citizen who does not love the flag; who does not see in it the story of our great, free institutions, and the hope of the home as well as the Nation.
A SONG FOR FLAG DAY
WILBUR D. NESBIT
Your Flag and my Flag!
And how it flies to-day
In your land and my land
And half a world away!