The Little Book of the Flag

by Eva March Tappan

And answer as man to man,

And loyally love and trust each other as none but free men can.

Now fling them out to the breeze,

Shamrock, Thistle, and Rose,

And the Star-Spangled Banner unfurl with these—

A message of friends and foes

Wherever the sails of peace are seen and wherever the war wind blows—

A message to bond and thrall to wake,

For wherever we come, we twain,

The throne of the tyrant shall rock and quake,