Our Flag

Improvement Era, vol. 22, no. 1, November 1918, pp. 1 to 2

Lambourne, Alfred

OUR FLAG UPON THE ALPS Where touches on Mont Blanc the coming light, First place of Europe in the sunrise glow, Amid the gleaming wastes of ice and snow, There floats our Freedom's banner on the height. A strange and splendid, unexpected sight, High o'er the alpine glacier's ebb and flow, Where falls the avalanche, the bleak winds blow, Tells to the Old World of the New World's might.

Yea, honored banner, rich with clustered stars.

Wave brightly, then, o'er Chamonix's deep vale. The Golden Hopes of our Republic tell, Make hearts of Europe with fresh courage swell. Thee, in this hour of struggle, proud we hail,

O flag, stainless in thy wars ALIKE!) LAM BOURNE.