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Updated: May 17, 2025
It may be a long way to Tipperary, but it is longer to the end of the tether that binds the heart of man to the cradle songs of his nativity. With the cradle songs of America the name of Stephen Collins Foster "is immortal bound," and I would no more dishonor his memory than that of Robert Burns or the author of The Star-Spangled Banner.
It sank and sank, and while Admiral Perry held fast to a bit of railing and waited with moist eyes for the end, the words of the old "Star-Spangled Banner," which had been heard more than once in times of storm and peril, rang out from the deck of the Connecticut. Then, with her flag waving to the last, the admiral's flag-ship sank slowly beneath the waves, leaving a bloody glow behind her.
Snatch from the archives of your State the disorganizing edict of its Convention bid its members to reassemble and promulgate the decided expression of your will to remain in the path which alone can conduct you to safety, prosperity, and honor tell them that, compared to disunion, all other evils are light, because that brings with it an accumulation of all declare that you will never take the field unless the Star-spangled banner of your country shall float over you that you will not be stigmatized when dead, and dishonored and scorned while you live, as the authors of the first attack on the Constitution of your country!
It seemed that Chukkers, who was riding Jackaroo for Ikey Aaronsohnn, had thought he was well through, and was sitting down to idle home, when two fences from the finish Albert Edward, riding an any-price outsider, came up on his right out of the blue and challenged the star-spangled jacket. Chukkers, who was on the favourite, with orders to win, had drawn his whip and ridden for his life.
Over the simple grave of Francis Scott Key, in Frederick, Maryland, there is no other monument than the "star-spangled banner." In storm and in sunshine, in summer and in winter, its folds ever float over the resting place of the man who has immortalized it in verse. No other memorial could so fitly commemorate the life and death of this simple, dignified, patriotic American.
"Favourite's goin' strong. Gallops like a engine, don't she? I like to see her." Those who were watching through their glasses marked that a fence before the Canal Turn the star-spangled jacket and the purple and gold seemed to be taking council together. "Goin' to turn on the tap now, you'll see," said the old man. He was right.
At length about six weeks after their arrival upon the island they were returning from an excursion to the other side of the island, when, on arriving in sight of the shore, an unexpected sight greeted their eyes. A pole had been planted in the sand, and from it waved the familiar flag, dear to the heart of every American the star-spangled banner.
"I have taken possession of it in the name of the United States, supposing myself the first discoverer." "That's all right. To my mind, the Star-Spangled Banner is the best that can wave over it." "We might offer the captain our boat," suggested Robert.
Had he really no abiding love for Bessie, that he could speak thus of the trouble and expense her death had caused him? Grey could not tell, but he was never as near hating Neil McPherson, as he was that moment, and he felt a greater desire to thrash him than he had done at Melrose when the star-spangled banner was insulted.
If the doors happened to open, and the chorus broke out unveiled "O! say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?" delicious tremors ran up and down my spine, and I was faint with suppressed enthusiasm. Where had been my country until now? What flag had I loved? What heroes had I worshipped?
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