Citations:rainbow flag

US flag

 * (historical, obsolete) The flag of the United States of America, seen (like a rainbow) as a symbol of promise or peace.


 * 1817 (original; republished in 1842 in The American National Song Book), John Neal, Perry’s Victory:
 * Columbia, appear! let thy warriors behold, / Their flag, like a firmament bend o’er thy head— / The wide, rainbow flag, with its star-cluster’d fold! / Let the knell of dark battle beneath it be toll’d; / While the anthem of peace shall be peal’d for the dead,


 * more ambiguous:


 * 1844(?), George P. Morris, God Has Made Us Free: A National Anthem, in e.g. Mirror Library, page 12:
 * Hail with pride and loud hurrahs, / Streaming from a thousand spars, / Freedom's rainbow-flag of stars! / The symbol of our land!