"The Old Ironsides" Poem

In case you read the last two posts about the USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides" and were trying to remember that poem you had to memorize in days gone by, here is the first stanza.

I don't remember if we had to learn all three stanzas or just the one.    Either way, I really only just remembered the first two lines anyway.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Aye tear her tattered ensign down

Long has it waved on high,

And many an eye has danced to see 

That banner in the sky;

Beneath it hung that battle shout, 

And burst the cannon's roar;--

The meteor of the ocean air

Shall sweep the clouds no more.

Nor can I remember if we were forced to memorize it in fourth or fifth grade in North Carolina.

Glad this helped save the ship.  That is one magnificent sailing ship.

Rememberizing.  --Brocktution