...and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with...face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word; "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog!...

...and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the window-sill And shook it forth with...face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at the woman's deed and word; "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog!...

...flag and waved it back at the Confederate troops, challenging them to shoot again. Whittier wrote: "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare...face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word; "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog!...

...from the broken staff, Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the window sill And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you...gray head, But spare your country's flag!" she said. Don't hang the black crepe on America so long as she has this kind of women. America's strength also...

...and students memorized the poems they loved best. Certainly millions of young Americans memorized " 'Shoot, if you must, this old gray head / But spare your country's flag,' she said," from "Barbara Frietchie." Or declaimed with pride the sonorous lines from Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus"...

...muskets trained on the window, to hold fire. The best-remembered lines recalled Frietchie's famous dare: "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. But the next stanzas, less often quoted, celebrated Jackson's forbearance: A shade of sadness, a blush...

...and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with...face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word; "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog!...

...Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with royal will "Shoot if you must this old gray head,...face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word: "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog!...

...spoiled by banal conceptions and trite sentimentalization. Whittier's worst things are his most famous: "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. ( "Barbara Frietchie" ) For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have...

...off its staff, but Barbara Frietchie catches it, leans out the window, and addresses the soldiers: "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, / But spare your country's flag!" she said." Shylock The merciless moneylender in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, by William SHAKESPEARE. He demands a POUND...