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 "title": "From Glory Unto Glory",
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 "subtitle": "American Flag Song",
 "poet": "Henry van Dyke Jr.",
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  "year": 1920,
  "venue": "The Poems of Henry Van Dyke (1920)",
  "note": "Taken from the 1920 collected edition. That is the printing this text comes from, not the poem's first appearance: the volume gathers work published from 1897 onward, and which earlier book or magazine printed this poem first has not been established here.",
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    "text": "O dark the night and dim the day",
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   {
    "text": "When first our flag arose;",
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    "text": "It fluttered bravely in the fray",
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    "text": "To meet o’erwhelming foes.",
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    "text": "Our fathers saw the splendor shine,",
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   {
    "text": "They dared and suffered all;",
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   {
    "text": "They won our freedom by the sign⁠—",
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    "text": "The holy sign, the radiant sign⁠—",
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    "text": "Of the stars that never fall.",
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    "text": "All hail to thee, Young Glory!",
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    "text": "Among the flags of earth",
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    "text": "We’ll ne’er forget the story",
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    "text": "Of thy heroic birth.",
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    "text": "O wild the later storm that shook",
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   {
    "text": "The pillars of the State,",
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    "text": "When brother against brother took",
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    "text": "The final arms of fate.",
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    "text": "But union lived and peace divine",
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    "text": "Enfolded brothers all;",
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    "text": "The flag floats o’er them with the sign⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The loyal sign, the equal sign⁠—",
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    "text": "Of the stars that never fall.",
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    "text": "All hail to thee, Old Glory!",
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    "text": "Of thee our heart’s desire",
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    "text": "Foretells a golden story,",
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   {
    "text": "For thou hast come through fire.",
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    "text": "O fiercer than all wars before",
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    "text": "That raged on land or sea,",
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    "text": "The Giant Robber’s world-wide war",
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   {
    "text": "For the things that shall not be!",
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   {
    "text": "Thy sister banners hold the line;",
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   {
    "text": "To thee, dear flag, they call;",
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   {
    "text": "And thou hast joined them with the sign⁠—",
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    "text": "The heavenly sign, the victor sign⁠—",
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    "text": "Of the stars that never fall.",
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    "text": "All hail to thee, New Glory!",
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   {
    "text": "We follow thee unfurled",
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   {
    "text": "To write the larger story",
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   {
    "text": "Of Freedom for the World.",
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