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First Line: Make room on our banner bright
Last Line: "that spangle your banner bright."
Subject(s): Texas Revolution (1835-1836)


MAKE room on our banner bright
That flaps in the lifting gale,
For the orb that lit the fight
In Jacinto's storied vale.
Through clouds, all dark of hue,
It arose with radiant face;
Oh, grant to a sister true,
Ye stars, in your train a place!

The blood of the Saxon flows
In the veins of the men who cry, --
"Give ear, give ear unto those
Who pine for their native sky!
We call on our Motherland
For a home in Freedom's hall, --
While stretching forth the hand,
Oh, build no dividing wall!

"The Mexican vaunteth no more;
In strife we have tamed his pride;
The coward raps not at your door,
Speak out! shall it open wide?
Oh, the wish of our hearts is strong,
That the star of Jacinto's fight
Have place in the flashing throng
That spangle your banner bright."





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