---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Henry Holcomb Bennett
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 21
number: 4
published: 1918-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Henry Holcomb Bennett, “The Flag Goes By,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 4 (February 1918): 296–297."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2104unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2104unse
start_page: 296
end_page: 297
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2104unse
  publication_year: 1918
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Flag Goes By

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The Flag Goes By

"Hats off! Along the street there comes

A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,

A flash of color beneath the sky:

Hats off! The flag is passing by!

"Blue and crimson and white it shines,

Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines.

Hats off! The colors before us fly;

But more than the flag is passing by.

"Sign of a nation, great and strong

To ward her people from foreign wrong:

Pride and glory and honor, — all

Live in the colors to stand or fall."

Henry Holcomb Bennett.

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