[for the Dispatch.]
the Starry-Barred Banner.
By M. B. Wharton.
air--Star Spangled Banner.
‘ O.who ever know so majestic a view As you flag now presents, that the pure breeze is kissing.
It resembles, tis true, the old ‘"Red, White and Blue,"’
But its stars are more bright, while the stripes are all missing;
Still the stars are all there — those that seem to be gone
Worn but false Northern lights, which all patriots disown.
While the bars take the place of the ‘"gridiron prongs"’--
Since each stripe to the Yankees so rightly belongs.
As the winds round it blow, how its bright beauties glow!
O tell something more of that banner's proud story;
Each bar charms the eye like a bow in the sky.
While each star seems the first both in lustre and glory.
'Tis the ensign of those who their wrongs would redress.
Who frown on base tyrants and all who oppress.
'Tis the Starry-Barred Banner with motto so brave--
‘"Where liberty dwells there I ever shall wave."’
'Tis now lifted on high, while ‘"we conquer or die"’
Be the watch-word of all who so proudly salute it,
And our foes shall soon fly, who our rights now deny,
And our soil shall be free from the feet that pollute it;
Our triumph, all friends of true freedom shall bless--
While our ‘"property, places, and forts we'll possess."’
And the Ape and his minions from power shall be hurled.
A lesson to tyrants all over the world.
Let us march to the fight, and contend for each right,
Which our fathers bequeathed in the old Revolution,
Let's be just in God's sight, let's confide in his might,
And our homes we'll defend and each loved institution.
Then rally ye sons of the proud sunny South,
Your freedom proclaim at the cannon's dread mouth,
'Neath the Starry-Barred Banner, with motto so brave--
‘"Where liberty dwells there I ever shall wave."’
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