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Constitution of the United States of America

Declaration of Independence

The Federalist Papers

Star Spangled Banner

The Pledge of Allegiance

American Flag Store: Etiquette

To order inexpensive copies of The Constitution visit http://www.heritage.org/ , Go to Bookstore: lower left: Give copies to all your friends.

 GOD BLESS OUR FLAG

 God bless our noble flag

Wherever it may be.

Oh, may it stainless wave,

The emblem of the free!

And may the brave and true

Protect it by their might,

Till all shall bend the knee

To justice, truth, and right!

----- J.D. Alexander

OUR COUNTRY’S FLAG

There are many flags in many lands,

There are flags of every hue,

But there is no flag, however grand,

Like our own “Red, White, and Blue.”

I know where the prettiest colors are;

And I’m sure, if I only knew

How to get them here, I could make a flag

Of glorious “Red, white, and Blue.”

I would cut a piece from an evening sky,

Where the stars were shining through,

And use it just as it was on high,

For my stars and field of blue.

Then I’d want a part of a fleecy cloud,

And some red from a rainbow bright;

And put them together, side by side,

For my stripes of red and white.

We shall always love the “Stars and Stripes,”

And we mean to be ever true

To this land of ours and the dear old flag,

The Red, White, and the Blue.

Then hurrah for the flat! Our country’s flag,

Its stripes and white stars too;

There is no flag in any land

Like our own “Red, White, and Blue.”

----- Lydia Avery Coonley Ward

Both poems are reproduced from Studies in Reading, Searson & Martin, Fourth Grade primer, copyright 1915.