The Flag Day Poem by Lydia Coonley Ward Out on the breeze O'er land and seas, A beautiful banner is streaming. Shining its stars. Sple...

Off to School Hurry! hurry! is the rule On the days we go to school. Just as soon as breakfast's done, 'Round about the house we run...

 A Sunshine Rainbow Six pretty colors Dancing on the door. Climbing on the ceiling, Falling on the floor. One little boy With his hands held...

 A Sky Rainbow Some little drops of water That lay upon the ground. Once started off for cloud-land To see what could be found. They climbed...

poem by Charles Sprague.  INDEPENDENCE A SOLEMN DUTY By Richard Henry Lee         The time will certainly come when the fated separation bet...

  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien...

"Nor shall their story be forgot...  AMERICA RESENTS BRITISH DICTATION By Henry H. Carrington        During the agitation of 1765, conc...

THE FOURTH OF JULY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY By Phillips Brooks, July 4, 1880        To all true men the birthday of a nation must always be a sa...

"How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest."        "There are brief crises in which the ...

The Declaration of Independence: The Vision of a Free Society from the Jack Miller Center  "The United States is the only country with ...

OUR NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY BY A. H. RICE        We celebrate to-day no idle tradition - the deeds of no fabulous race; for we tread in the sca...

"Let Independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost." ADDRESS OF JOHN LATHROP (JULY 4 , 1796, Boston.)        In the war for...