...sun She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave unto his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Forever float that standard sheet! Where breathes...our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us!" The Glee Club sang " Our Native Land, America." Major Hoyt Sherman was called upon, and responded as...

...given !•• Thv stars have lit the welkin dome, Arid-all thy lines are born in Heaven '. For ever float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe...beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er MS? Atl CBOAKBK 8s CONo. 23.] WASHINGTON CITY, JUMli 5, 1819 [VOL VII Printed and Published, every...

...fly, In triumph, o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free hearts' only home, By angel hands to valour given : Thy stars have lit the welkin dome And all...float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe that falls before it ? With Freedom's soil beneath our ieet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us....

...observance.' What! sirs, shall we, in a land 'consecrated to the genius of universal emancipation,' 1 With freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us,' submit to two or three editors, who, one might imagine from their actions, are 'lords of the creation?'...

...The stanza originally stood thus : — " Flag of the free heart's only homo, By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven ; And fixed as yonder orb divine, That saw thy bannered blaze unfurled, Shall thy proud stars resplendent...

...splendors fly, In triumph, o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home. By angel-hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven \ Forever fl&at that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us. With Freedom's soil beneath...

...And smile to see thy splendors fly, In triumph, o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home, By angel hands to valor given, Thy stars have...our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? •OLD IRONSIDES.' Ay! pull her tattered ensign down, Long has it wav'd on high, And many a heart has...

...at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendours fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. V. Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! By angel hands to valour given ; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float...

...splendors fly, In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home, By angel-hands to valor given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome,...standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe, but falls before u», With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? When he had read...

...fly, In triumph, o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's only home ! By angel hands to valour given, — . Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And...float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe that stands before us ? With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And freedom's banner streaming o'er us...