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Updated: May 17, 2025
On the mountain the black pall was conspicuous against the star-spangled sky. A red glow from the crater illumined the dark smoke-cloud hanging over it. The silence was broken by the continued playing of reed pipes, making wonderful music. Melannie sat upon a throne, close to the pool in front of the coral cave, in which the stars were reflected as in a mirror.
And if a child inside be wakeful and precocious it is not dreams alone that take on reflections from the balcony outside: through the half-open shutters the still, quiet eyes look across the dim forms on the balcony to the star-spangled or the moon-brightened heavens beyond; while memory makes stores for the future, and germs are sown, out of which the slow, clambering vine of thought issues, one day, to decorate or hide, as it may be, the structures or ruins of life.
Georgiana was laughing, as her eyes met her husband's in a glance of understanding, but her heart was very warm behind the laughter. Beyond the gleam of the lanterns she caught the golden glow of a summer moon rising, to illumine the depths of the country sky the immense, star-spangled arch of the heavens.
The curved architraves rise at each extremity like two menacing horns, pointing upward toward the far-off blue canopy of the star-spangled sky, as if they would communicate to the gods the knowledge they have acquired in the depths of their foundations from the earth, full of sepulchres and death, which surrounds them.
Gilmore's Band played the "Star-Spangled Banner," and the audience cheered. The tune changed to "Dixie" and the audience roared with shrill "hi-yis." Again the music changed, this time to "Yankee Doodle," and the clamour lessened. All this time the eyes of the thousands present looked straight at the Negro orator. A strange thing was to happen.
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the knave caroled Bob, and charged the matter up to experience, not, however, without first storing the incident away in his nimble brain for future reference.
Oh, Yetta, Yetta what shall I say?" The girl softened. She took both his hands in her shapely ones and murmured: "Dear little boy, I treated you roughly. Forgive me! There was a real descent by the police it was no deception. That's why I asked you to play the Star-Spangled Banner " "Excuse me, Yetta; but why did you do that? Why didn't you meet the police defiantly chanting the Marseillaise?
Here, from this crowning tower has floated for more than half a century the "star-spangled banner" of our country, giving to the early settler an assurance of protection; proclaiming equality and freedom to all peoples who come hither in search of new homes, and to each and all a sense of increased dignity and importance as they stand underneath its ample folds.
Nougat-Jones, who had come in late. "Who has bought it?" she whispered back. "Don't know; he hasn't said anything yet, but it must be some American. Do you see, he has got a little American flag on the dessert dish, and he has put pennies in the music box three times, once to play the 'Star-spangled Banner, then a Sousa march, and then the 'Star-spangled Banner' again.
Whether Rupert was enjoying his rubber comforter on the cool green grass, or on the slightly painful gravel, or on the fiercely hot asphalt, summer was to him a season of unsurpassed sensuality, flooding his character with rich productive thought and a passionate adoration for his great-aunt Maud, who was wont to beguile the long sun-stained hours by lying amid cushions among the foliage, humming "The Star-Spangled Banner," while she removed with the point of her nail-scissors caramels and other adhesive morsels from the gutta-percha plate of her new false teeth which lay in her lap.
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