Excerpt from Washington at Valley Forge: Together With the Duché Correspondence

"When freedom from her mountain height
Unfurl'd her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night
And set the stars of glory there!
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped its pure celestial white,
With streakings from the morning light!
Then, from his masion in the sun,
She called her eagle bearer down,
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land!" Joseph Rodman Drake.

In the history of a nation. how frequently we overlook the accomplishments of peace, for the glittering page that records their conquests and their military fame!

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