StoryTitle("caps", "Barbara Frietchie ")?>
SubTitle("caps", "Concert Reading")?>
PoemStart()?>
PagePoem(81, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up from the meadows rich with corn,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clear in the cool September morn,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The cluster'd spires of Frederick stand, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Green-wall'd by the hills of Maryland. ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Round about them orchards sweep, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Apple and peach-tree fruited deep, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair as a garden of the Lord,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the eves of the famish'd rebel horde, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On that pleasant morn of the early Fall, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Lee march'd over the mountain wall, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over the mountains winding down,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Horse and foot, into Frederick town. ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Forty flags with their silver stars, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Forty flags with their crimson bars, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flapp'd in the morning wind: the sun ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of noon look'd down, and saw not one. ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bow'd with her fourscore years and ten; ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bravest of all in Frederick town,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She took up the flag the men haul'd down, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In her attic window the staff she set,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To show that one heart was loyal yet.", "")?>
PagePoem(83, "L0", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up the street came the rebel tread, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under his slouch'd hat, left and right, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He glanced; the old flag met his sight:", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Halt!\"—the dust-brown ranks stood fast.", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Fire!\"—out blazed the rifle-blast.", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It shivered the window, pane and sash; ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It rent the banner with seam and gash. ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quick as it fell from the broken staff ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She leaned far out on the window-sill, ", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And shook it forth with a royal will.", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But spare your country's flag,\" she said.", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A shade of sadness, a blush of shame", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over the face of the leader came;", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Who touches a hair of yon gray head,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dies like a dog! March on!\" he said.", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All day long through Frederick street", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sounded the tread of marching feet;", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All day long that free flag tossed", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over the heads of the rebel host.", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Barbara Frietchie's work is o'er,", "")?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the rebel rides on his raids no more.", "")?>
PoemEnd()?>
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