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the Gag whose stars with glory shine.
And saw the sunlight kiss IL on the plains
OF Brandywine
1Tcthinks adown the aisles OF time the
drums are echoing still
That beat the long roll. sharp and clear.
that day at Bunker Hill:
seem 10 hear the bugle notes that sounded
I'm the glen
When. swooping down upon the foe. came
Marion and his men.
IL stirs my blood as recall the yeomen OF
the farms
Who led their horses from the fields when
Freedom called 10 arms;
she found them ready for the fray. All! you
remember how
The news that spread from Lexington
found Putnam at the plow.
The farmers OF New England gathered
fast from near and far
When Stark marched up TO bennington Ia
dim inyasions star
They formed Spartan phalanx which no
British steel could break.
and play'd the deadly game OF war with
Liberty the stake.
with hearty zeal their foes 10 meet they
focked with might and main.
From east and west, from north and south
20 Saratoga's plain;
They followed Arnold IN the charge which
won that field OF fame
And crimsoned with their own life blood
the flag we love to name.
They beat their plowshares into swords,
their pillow steeds they bestrode.
Behind the plume OF Harry Lee right gal
lantly they rode;
One night across the Delaware amid the
sleet and snow
Those farmers followed washington and
smote the Hessian foe.
rrTshev faIfered NOT IN ho.tie. uron York
towns glorious field
They saw the red coats ground their arms
and grim oppression yield;
And In the sun that autumn day tho fear
less little band
Saw washington with vict'ry crowned-the
savior OF the land.
Upon that document whose fame we cele-
brate to-day
The farmer hero wrote his name, Il stand
eth there for aye
He left the harvest and the plow. against
oppression he,
To say TO George In thunder tones: This
country shall be freel'
AYE. in that fight for freedom. like a wall
those farmers stood.
From Lexington's immortal plain TO Prince
tons snowy wood;
Theytsfought for right on Hill and plain.
deep In the break and gorge.
They bore without a murmur all the woes
OF Valley Forge.
The legacy they left to us. their sons. is
vast and free
The land which lies In majesty from sound
ing sea to sea,
IA Gag whose beauty wins the world upon
the land and foam.
Beneath whose stars the poor oppressed
win ever End home
All hail the mem'ry OF the men who gath
cred long ago
AT Freedoms clarion call TO arms TO smite
the foreign foel
Their sons. like them. have left the pillow.
their freedom 10 maintain,
They nobly fought at New Orleans. they
died at Lundys Lane.
To-day I fling Old Glory proudly TO the
summer breeze,
4 know IL thrills million hearts beyond
the stormy seas:
~ waves above the howell poor and DER the
mansion. too.
with bIazonod stripes OF white and red and
stars IN Held OF blue,
Long may II float above the land which
calls that flag it's own.
Around Il chosen heroes stand. beneath IL
Ia no throne;
Our farmer sires who saw II wave in war
have passed away,
But VIC recall their deeds of worth with
pride this natal day.
The childrentver in the grove with mimic
sword and gun
Are playing war beneath the trees-Bur-
goyne and Washington
cross tho fields TO watch them. while
heroic memries swarm,
And thus pass another dear old Fourth
upon the farm.
IT c. Harbaugh. In Ohio Farmer.