Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming

- Francis Scott Key

from Concord Hymn...

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

from King Richard III...

Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous

- William Shakespeare