Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Riverside song book — The Flower of Liberty (1893)
“ To all their heav'n-ly col - ors true. In kin - dies all the sun - set land: O tell us what its op'n - ing leaves were streaked with blood, Till lo! earth's ty - rants spot - less white from north - ern snows, And, span - gled o'er its waves where lone - ly sen - tries tread; It makes the land as black'n-ing frost or crim - son dew,— And God love us as name may be,— Is this the Flower of Lib - er - ty? ”
