The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-09-25
II Saturday
Serfflo1ette:

+ Awake, awake, utter a songs
+ Judges SIP. i
+ There are many gateways to-
j. the inspiration of patriotism +
+ There is none, perhaps, more gen +
i erously open than the gateway of +
+ song. LET me-" said a genius, +
+ awake to this fact, LET me write +
+ the songs of a nation, and care +
+ not who writes her laws" Senti- +
l. ment, rather than statutes sways +
+ the world. And the emotion of +
= patriotism is quickly reused by+
+ song. These observations are ap- +
+ posite now, because all through +
+ the shining hours while they are =
+ being printed, the guns on our +
+ forts and fleets on every shore +
+ and every sea will be booming +
+ out salute of q guns to cele- +
+ brate the centennial of Francis +
+ Scott Keys great national lyric: 1.
I.
= IT'S the Star-Spangled Banner! s.
i Oh, long may it wave +
4 Ger the land of the free and the +
+ home of the brave. +
+ Every American common school +
+ child knows the history of both =
:. the song and the singer. No +
+need to recite them here. +
j. The song, like most of the nigh +
i ty lyrics, was born out of a sea- j.
+ son of travel. War was on; and +
+ our foes were laundering at the +
*very gates of the nation. Every +
= patriotic sense was tense; and as 4
+ in the olden times of Israel this =
j. spirit called to the genius of that j.
j. day, saying, Awake, awake, ut +
+ ter song" So it stirred in Key {.
i'as he was detained a prisoner on +
+ the deck of a British ship before =
+ Baltimore. Out of a night of sor-f'
*row induced by the bombardment i
+ of his native shore, came a NOV +
+ ing of joy inspired by the discov- i
+ cry "at dawn's early light" that 4.
+ "our flag was still there" on the +
+ ramparts of Fort McHenry. T.
+ A British deck was essentially /.
+ foreign land. But Key with I.
+ spirit more militant than that of I.
+ lsraels ancient bard, who could =
+'not sing the Lords song in +
= strange land, sang this song, in /
+ part at least while a prisoner on +
+ a foreign vessel or war. i
+ Three things characterize "The /
+ Star-Spangled Banner" The 7
T. first is its intense passion of pa +
i triotism, which was unquenched 4
E'by the untoward circumstances I
:: amid which it was written. This I
+ lyric has lived, and made its au- 4
:! thor live, because it constantly I
+ appeals to the enduring passions Z
+ of patriotism in the American Z
l. heart. =
+ It's freedom from rancor and {
+ bitterness is another Characters .
T. tic of this national air. Its patri- I
+ otism is intense, and the provo I
+ cation to harshness in the midst 4
+ of the guns fire on the writer's =
+ own native shores, was very greats
+ But while Keys lines breathe the !
+ loftiest devotion to country, they I
+ do not breathe out threatenings Z
+ and slaughter against our coun- I
+ try's foes, whoever they may be. I
+ Again, it breathes faith in God. I
+But faith in God is not made the
!. excuse for injustice of cause or
SuplneneSS III dcLlon. attn, JUS =
+ tice and fortitude are linked to- I
+ gether in the poets thought, as
I. may they ever be in. the nations I
+ thought while it sings Z
+ Then conquer we must, Z
+ When our cause it is just!
{. And this be our motto, Z
+ an God is our trust" I
+ And the Star-Spangled Banner I
I. in triumph shall wave I
= Ger the land of the free and the 4
+ home of the brave.
4 J. M. B. I
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