Poetry: A Reply To Campbell
Published as "To the English Flag" in George Lunt's The Age of Gold, and Other Poems, Boston: Ticknor, 1843.
Every one leiner.ibeis Cánipbt'U's H;ies d) tlio American Flagc. publUJiecà eotoe ;jmè fcinee in all ourpapM3. Tiicy ra ihus: United States! ycur banner wenrs Tho ernbienis; oncof fnme; Akia! tho other Int i; bears Rcniinda us oÃ' your shr.me! The wliito man's überty in types Stands bl.rzoned by your éfhrs - Biit whnt's the mermingof your htiipos? . Tliey moan your negroos scars. George Lunt, in hia new volume of pobüÃs, jus! ttaSi passing .through llio pre.s, thus gives tiie retort conrteous to tliu Engüsh Flag; Enfel.itidi whoüco canic ench lowin;j hne, Tiiat liftte your flng of 'Mr.cic'or" lililà - The strenïninr; red, the deeper bluo, Crossed with the tr.oonbeam'spcnrly wljiic The bfood and Iruisc - thé !hic and red - Let Asia's groaning millions spcak; 7'he rchite - i' Ãeüs tho color fled Fioru starvinj; irin ;-'dl:d cheök!
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George Lunt
Flags
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Old News
Signal of Liberty
Thomas Campbell