Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-07-26
lie star-spangIed aanner.

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This song was originally procured
from Mr. Key by the late Iamentec
John s. Skinner, who handed it te
the editor of the Baltimore Patriot, Col
Isaac Monroe, who published it in his
paper ton the goth September, 1914:
with the following introduction:
The following beautiful and anima.
ting efusion which is destined long to
outIast the occasion, and outIiye the
impulse which produced it, has been
extensively circulated. In our first re-
newal of publication, we rejoice in all
opportunity I e%nliven the sketch OF
an exploit so illustrious with strains
which so fifty celebrate it. This in
Comparable song was composed under
the following circumstances: A gentle
man Francis s. Key, Esy,,7 had left
Baltimore with a flag of truce for the
purpose Of getting released from the
British feet a friend Of his, who had
been captured at Marlborough. He
went as far as the mouth of the Patux-
ent, and was not permitted to return
lest the intended attack on Baltimore
should be disclosed. He was therefore
brought up the Bay to the mouth Of
the Patapsco, where the flag vessel
was kept under the guns of a frigate,
and he was compelled to witness the
bombardment of Fort McHenry, which
the Admiral had boosted that he would
carry in a few hours, and that the city
must fall. He watched the flag at the
Fort through the whole day with an
anxiety that can be better felt than
described, until the night prevented
him from seeing it. In the night he
watced the bomb shells, and at early
dawn his eye was again greeted by the
proudly wa flag ofhis country:
sTARS%ANGLED BANNER.
%! say, can you see, by the dawn's aarly light,
What SO proudly we haild at the t~wilight's
lastRleaming,
Whose 81 and bright stars, through the pc
lilous fight,
Der the ramparts we watch'd were so gal
lantly streaming;
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting
- in air,
Cave proof through the night that our flag was
still therel
Q! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
Ger the land Of the, free and the nome of the
braYe2
On hore, dimly seen through the mists of
he deep,
W re the foes naughty host in dread silence
reposes,
What is that which the breeze, DER the tow'ring
steep,
AS il dtfully blows, half c~onceals, half disclo-
ses?
Nov i catches the CLEAN of the mornings FIRST
beam,
IN fun glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
IT'S The star-spangled bannerl O., long may it
Der the land Of the free, and the home of the
brave.
That the havoc Of war and the battles coufu-
A home and a country shall leave US no more2
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps
pollution:
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror Of fight, or the gloom uf the
And the star,spangled banner in triumph doth
Der the land Of the free and the home Of the
brave.
OF thus be if ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the wars DESC
lation;
with victory and peace, may the heaven
rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserved
us a nation!
Theu conquer we must, when our cause It'll Just,
this be our motto-"In God is our trustP'
And the star-spangled banner iii triumph shall
wave,
Der the land Of the free and the home Of the
brave.