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This church is visited by an endless stream of pilgrims, and many wild legends are told concerning it. The Occupation of Mayaguez We enter the city in triumph An enthusiastic reception A pretty girl and the star-spangled banner Other memorable incidents Our rags and tatters A description of Mayaguez We pitch our tents in a swamp The First Kentucky Volunteers.
Yes, it was my first smell of the star-spangled jacket." "Was that when you got your leg?" "No, sir. That was eight years later. Boomerang's year. He was the first waler Ikey brought over this side to do the trick. My! he were a proper great 'orse, too. I was riding Chittabob like a pony alongside him. At the Canal Turn Chukkers ran me onto the rails."
We knew not as yet which party it was that were thus flying. We looked at the tower in breathless suspense. The cloud was around its base, where musketry was still rolling, sending its deadly missiles after the fugitives below. "Look! look!" cried a voice: "the Mexican flag it is down! See! `the star-spangled banner!"
"The Star-Spangled Banner," while it is animated, patriotic, defiant, neither cringes nor boasts; it is as national in its spirit as it is adequate in the expression of that spirit. Believing, then, that Key's poem will be the national air of succeeding generations of Americans, the facsimile of the original draft is here reproduced by the kindness of Mrs.
"But," he added, "I have a voice, and that voice is for war." The young man then closed his speech with some strikin and orginal remarks in relation to the star-spangled banner. He was followed by the village minister, a very worthy man indeed, but whose sermons have a tendency to make people sleep pretty industriously. "I am willin' to inlist for one," he said. "What's your weight, parson?"
Gasping and thrilled with pious awe, enraptured but dumb with reverent fear, the assembled thousands gazed on the god dimly revealed to them in the twilight, when suddenly, for a moment of solemn glory, a ray of the setting sun a shaft of intense brightness pierced the star-spangled apse of the niche and fell on the lips of the god as though to kiss its Lord and Father.
Even the little tulle dress she had worn as the Queen of Hearts at Ginger's Valentine party, years ago, came out of the chest as she dived deeper into its contents, and a star-spangled costume of red, white, and blue, in which she had fluttered as the Goddess of Liberty one Fourth of July. Slippers and buckles and plumes, fans and gloves and artificial flowers, were piled up all around her.
The bride and groom sang alternate stanzas, and the concourse of soldiers, civilians, and females swelled the chorus. The reserve being thus broken, the young officer sang the "Star-Spangled Banner," and the refrain must have called up the mermaids. Dancing ensued, and a soldier volunteered a hornpipe.
His mother and the Red Cross nurse propped his head up a very little, so that he could see into the street. Louder and louder grew the strains, then stopped; the drums beat. "Oh, they're not going to play as they go by!" cried David, disappointed. The tramp of the marching feet came nearer. Suddenly the band burst with a crash into the "Star-Spangled Banner." David's eyes shone with delight.
"Boys, 'The Star-spangled Banner," cried Tad after a moment of impressive silence. The youthful voices of the Pony Rider Boys rose in the National anthem, the deep bass voice of Professor Zepplin booming out above all the rest. When next we meet our boys we shall find them in utterly different surroundings.
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