Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-10-14

- -.--4, "oiuo DJ OuafieS tOlnueXter,
OF Rlchmond music by J. e. SchmoI.
zer, an eminent German composer. rem
dered by the chorus of three hundred
voices, under Professor G. Il. SiegeI
accompanied by the Marine Band nndor
Professor J. Philip Sioussa.
Tlm HYMN.
Our fathers God, Who on these plains
Of old gave victory to our land
This day in gracious favor deigns
To bless the labor of our hand
To him let us our voices raise,
In lofty hymns and notes Of praise,
Our grateful homage pay.
His was the strength that nerved their heart
In faith to battle for the right,
As did the wisdom high impart
That bafticd all the foemans might
And gave our land in days of yore,
Deliv'rence strong from trouble sore,
vi war and bitter strife.
Built on foundation strong and deep,
The starward pointing shaft we rear,
The forms of mighty deeds to keep,
And tell to every coming year.
SO let us IN our hearts upraise,
monument of those bright DAYS
OF faith and victory.
The music is of a solemn, devotional
character, of much beauty, and is well
adapted to the religious nature of the
words.
Address by the President of the
United States. Centennial Ode. Bv
Paul FL. Hayne, the we'll known Southern
Poet; Music by Prof Mosenthal. of
New York, rendered by the chorus OF
three hundred voices under Prof. G. l..
SpICrln a1
Band.
Hark, 1Iarl down the century s long reaching
To those transports of triumph those rapture
of hope,
The voices of main and mountain combined
In glad resonance borne on the wing of the wind
The bass of the drum and the trumpet that
thrills
Through the multiplied echoes of iubilant hills,
And mark how the years, melting upward like
mist
Which the breath of some splendid enchan-
tress has kissed,
Reveal on the ocean, reveal on the shore
The proud pageant of conquest that graced
them of yore,
When blended forever in love as in fame
See, the standard which stole from the star
light its fame,
And type Of all chivalry, glory, romance,
The fair lilies, the luminous lGllies OF France
II.
Oh stubborn the strife ere the conflict was
And the Wild whirllng war wrack half sdhed
the sun,
The thunders of cannons that doomed on the
But re-echoed far thunders pealed up from the
sea,
Where guarding his sea lists, knight on the
waves,
Bold De Grasse kept at bay the bluff bun dogs
of Graves,
The day turned to darkness the night turned to
fire,
Still more tiercer waxed the combat, more
deadly the ire.
Undimmed by the gloom, in majestic advance,
o. behold where they ride o'er the red battle
tide,
The brave standard which drew from the star
beams their flame.
And type of all chiyalry, glory, romance,
The fair lilies, the luminous lilies of France.
III.
No respite, no pause by the York's torture'
flood,
The gray Lion of England is writhing in blood
CORVALLIS may chafe and coarse Tarleton ave
AS he sharpens his broadsword and buckle
his spur,
''This blade, which so often has reaped rebel
like grain,
Shall now harvest for death the rude yeome
again"
Vain boast for ere sunset he's flying in feai
With the rebels he scouted close, close in hi
rear,
The French on his flank hurl such volleys {
shot
That e,ela Gloucester's redoubt must be grow
ing too hot. o."
thus welded in love as united in fame.
! Lo the standard which stole from the star
| light it's fame,
And type of all chiyalry, glory, romance,
The fair lilies, the luminous lilies of France.
".
0 morning appear when the siege reached ii
close
Seel the sundawn outblown like the alchemist
rose
The last wreath of smoke from dim trenche
upcurled
Are transformed to glory that smiles on til
world.
Joy, JOY Save the wan, wasted front of tn
With his battle flags furled and his arms trail
ing low.
Respect for the brave In grim silence the
| yield
And in silence they pass with bowed hea
from the field.
Then triumph transcendant so Titan of ton
That some vowed it must startle King Geore
on his throne.
When Peace to her own time the pulse of tn
land,
And the war weapon sank from the wal
wearied hand
Young Freedom upborne to the height of th
goal
She had yearned or SO long with deep trava
OF soul,
A song of the future raised, thrilling an
clear.
Till the woods leaned to hearken, the hi
slopes to hear,
Yet fraught with all magical grandeurs thl
On the hero's high hope, or the patriot
dream,
What future, tho bright, in cold shadow sha
cast
The stern beauty that halos the brow of tt
past.
Oh welded in love, as united in fame,
See the standard which stole from the starligl
its flame.
And type Of all chivalry, glory, romance,
The fair lilies the luminous lilies of France.
Grafton by Hon. Robert G. Winthrop
of Massachusetts,.
, The Star Spangled Banner by the CHI
} rus under Prof. Siegel, accompanied |
the Marine Band.
, Centennial Poem by James Barre
Hope, OF Virginia.