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“Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Old Ironsides.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8ca3fd230faf83f203560c6e8d7c6135177a082d8f477b49ecfddaf11765a1c2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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