The American Flag

When freedim from lier niountain height. Unfurled her bnnner to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stare of glory there ; She mingled with its gorgeous dyea The milky baldrie of the skies. And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light ; l'hen, frooi his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave unto his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Majestio monarch of the cloud ! Who rear'st aloft thy regal form. To hear the tempest trumping loud, And see the hghtning lances driven, When strides the wirrior of the storm , And rolls the thunder drum of heaven ; Child of the snn ! to thee is given; To guard the banner of the free. To hover in the Sulphur amoke, To waid away the battle etroke, And bid its blendings slnne afar, Like rainbows in the cloud of war, The harbingers of victory. Flag of the brave ! thy fdds shall fly The sign of hope and triumph high, When speaks the signaltrumpet tone, And the long line comes gleaming on, Ere yet the life blood, warm and wet, Has dimmed the glistening bayopet, Each soldier's eye shall briglitly turn To where thy meteor glories burn. And as his springing steps advance, Catch war and vengeance from the glance ; And when the cannon's mouthings loud, Weaye, in wild wreaths, the ba:tles ahroud, And gory sabers rise and fall, Like shots of flaine on midnight's pall, There shall thy victor glances glow. And cowering foes shall sink below Each gallant arm that strikes beneath That awful messenger of tleath. Flag of the seas ! on ooeans wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave, When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps dnrkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves ruíh wildly back, Before the broadside's reeling rack , The dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee. And smile to see thy splendor 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 weikin domo, And all thy hucs were born in heaven. Forever fioat that standard sheet !, Where breathes the foe but falls before us With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner waviiisr o'er us !