Possible Clues:

• On top of, in verse
• ''The ramparts'' lead-in
• ''Jingle Bells'' contraction
• Atop, to a bard
• "__ the land of the free ... "
• ". . . ___ the land of the free . . ."
• "Love, Reign ___ Me" (hit by The Who)
• Apostrophized preposition
• Whitman's 'A Backward Glance ___ Travel'd Roads'
• '...a feeling of sadness comes ___ me': Longfellow