- 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.
- 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!
