H. C. Bunner Quotes
Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.
Citations
Bunner, H. C. "The Old Flag." The Poems of H. C. Bunner. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896.
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Henry Cuyler Bunner was an American novelist, journalist and poet. He is known mainly for Tower of Babel.