Henry Holcomb Bennett
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Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A dash of color beneath the sky:
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Henry Holcomb Bennett Biography
Henry Holcomb Bennett (December 5, 1863 – April 30, 1924) was an author, journalist, and poet. He was the author of poems such as "A Desert Love Song" (Munsey's Aug. 1902) and "Gangway! Gangway", (National Magazine Mar. 1901) and the short stories "The Face of Ompah" (National Magazine June 1900) and "A Glorious Privilege", (National Magazine Nov. 1900) but remains best known as the author of the popular patriotic poem, "Hats Off - The Flag Goes By." This poem was first published in Woman's World (in July 1919.) It was soon published and sung widely—especially on the 4th of July. The poem was not first published in "Women's World" in July, 1919. It was first published in "An American Anthology" in 1900, edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1833-1908. The poem was also published in "The Young and Field Reader, Book Five, Boston, Ginn and Company, c. 1915, p. 381, submitted by Ross I. Morrison, Sr. Bennett is buried in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, USA.)
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The Flag Goes By
Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A dash 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.
Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and great,
Fought to make and to save the State:
Weary marches and sinking ships;
Cheers of victory on dying lips;
Days of plenty and years of peace;
March of a strong land's swift increase;
Equal justice, right and law,
Stately honor and reverend awe;
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.
Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums;
And loyal hearts are beating high:
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!
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i love this poem so much, its so true. you should have your hat off when your near the flag! ! :)
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4/25/2024 11:19:48 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Firstly, this poem was not first published in Woman's World in July 1919. It was first published 21 years earlier in The Youth's Companion (known in later years as simply The Companion—For All the Family, an American children's magazine) on January 13,1898. (He was 34 years old.) Furthermore, Henry Holcomb Bennett did not live between the years 1795 and 1894. He was born December 5,1863 and died on April 30,1924.