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FOR THE TIMES.
NEW YORK AND LONDON: Beadle and Company, 141 William St., N. Y. 44 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1861, BY BEADLE AND COMPANY, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
CONTENTS.
PAGE. A Life in the Soldier’s Camp, 63 A Mother’s Hymn in Time of War, 54 A Soldier’s Dream of Home, 64 A Yankee Volunteer, 65 Away to the Fray, 55 Battle Invocation, 72 Beautiful Union, 49 Begone, Sesesh, 43 Blue Jackets, Fall in, 20 Draw the Sword, Northland, 11 Drummer Boy of the National Greys, 38 “E Pluribus Unum,” 31 Flag Song, 24 Following the Drum, 40 Gathering Song, 15 Give us Room, 69 Hail Columbia, 77 Hark! to the Tread, 28 Hurrah for the Land we Love, 13 Liberty, 16 Mustering Chorus, 42 My Love he is a Zou-zu, 26 Our Country, Now and Ever, 25 Our Flag, 35 Rally, Boys! 58 Remember Traitors, 48 Rule, Columbia, 45 Song of the Zouaves, 21 Song of Union, 61 Stand by the Union, 37 Summons to the North, 9 Sweet is the Fight, 47 Sweet Maid of Erin, 36 The Alarum, 71 The Banner of Stars, 33 The Birth of our Banner, 30 The Brave and Free, 46 The Delaware Volunteers, 34 The Flag and the Union, 10 The Flag of the Brave, 67 The Flag of the Free, 14 The Great Union Club, 12 The “Mud-Sills” Greeting, 59 The Nation of the Free, 57 The Northmen are Coming, 22 The Northern Hurrah, 32 The Past and Present, 60 The Patriot’s Address, 73 The Patriot’s Serenade, 44 The Patriot’s Wish, 74 The Patriot Soldier, 68 The Star-Gemmed Flag, 50 The Star Flag, 5 The Star-Spangled Banner, 76 The Stripes and Stars, 27 The Union Gunning Match, 56 The Union Harvesting, 75 The Union Marseillaise, 70 The Union Sacrifice, 18 The Volunteer Yankee Doodle of ’61, 23 Three Cheers for our Banner, 66 Traitor, Spare that Flag, 62 Union Forever, 7 Victory’s Band, 41 Volunteer’s Song, 53 Where Liberty dwells there is my Country, 8 Wife of my Bosom, 17 Words of Sympathy, 52
When our fathers in vain sought redress from the throne, And the tyrant grew mad in his thirst for dominion, Earth shook while the bugle of conflict was blown; And our eagle unfolded his newly-fledged pinion. Men with hair thin and white, Bared their arms for the fight, And the lad of sixteen made the dull weapon bright; While gilding the battle-storm, rolling in wrath, The star-flag of Freedom streamed full on their path.
The bird to that banner forever allied, Was born in the cloud, and baptized by the thunder; And deeply in blood will his talons be dyed, Ere its clustering stars shall be riven asunder. And fiercely their light, Through the smoke of the fight, Shall flash, making traitors grow pale at the sight; And the sun, overtaken by death, shall grow cold, When the banner we hail is no longer unrolled.
Black treason shall never put foot on the flag 6 That floated the blast when Cornwallis was taken; And ere it give place to a Palmetto rag, The dead on the fields of their fame will awaken, Oh, shall it be furled, Bringing night on the world, While the house of our fathers in ruin is hurled! The brigand and traitor may hear a reply In the clash of our steel and the rallying cry.
Our bold Harry Clay loved this land of the free-- His name from old Jackson we will not dissever; Then spliced be your Ash to the Hickory-tree, And let them be symbols of Union forever. Without fear in their hearts, Well they acted their parts, Though traitors showered on them their deadliest darts; And true to their Maker, and faithful to man, The standard of Freedom they bore in the van.
From the North to the Tropic shall float on the gale Our star-flag, upheld by the brave and the just; Though a wretched Disunion banditti assail, They shall not drag down its proud eagle to dust. Then arm for the strife, Give them war to the knife, And light in the balance with Union hold life; Our flag to the breeze that a Washington blest, Though torn must wave over Charleston again.
7 Union Forever.
Copied by permission of FIRTH, POND & CO., Music Publishers, 547 Broadway, N. Y., owners of the copyright.
The Union of States forever will stand, The watchword of Freedom and Fame, A refuge for all from tyranny’s sway, An altar for Liberty’s flame. That Banner, bedecked by Heaven’s own tints, When threatened with insult or scorn, Each Patriot heart will rally around, To shelter its folds from the storm!
CHORUS.
The Union of States forever will stand, Defying oppression’s dark blight; Forever our flag will wave o’er the land, The ensign of Freedom and Light.
Columbia’s sons triumphant will breast Disunion’s tempestuous sea, Our grand old Ship forever will sail, The pride of the brave and the free. What God in his mercy hath wisely ordained, Forever a nation to stand, Not all foreign factions or traitors combined Can ever defame or disband.
CHORUS.
The Union of States forever will stand, Defying oppression’s dark blight; Forever our Flag will wave o’er the land, The ensign of Freedom and Light.
8 Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country.
Copied by permission of HORACE WATERS, Music Publisher, 481 Broadway, N. Y., owner of the copyright.
Where Liberty dwells is my country; There, only there; there, only there; Where Liberty dwells is my country; There, and only there.[A] Though storms should howl around her, And skies be overcast, And the good ship seem just to founder, Still, boys, we give to the blast: _Chorus._--Where Liberty dwells, etc.
That land; we will defend her, While floats our flag on high; Our motto is, “Never surrender,” Fight till we conquer or die. [_Chorus._
That star-sprent flag once covered Our Washington, the blest; That eagle victorious has hovered Long o’er our bravest and best. [_Chorus._
And know, there’s One who never Bids a good cause go down; God reigns, and His favor is ever With us--with our foes, His frown. [_Chorus._
Sing, then; bid those who love us, Join in our song so free; The heavens are smiling above us, Success, peace and liberty. [_Chorus._
[A] Repeat first four lines at commencement of each stanza.
9 Summons to the North.
AIR--_To the West--to the West_.
To the field! to the field! where our comrades now stand, For the cause of the Union, the life of our land! Where the sons of the North for their liberties fight, And the men of all nations combine for the right; Where the children of Erin with Britons conjoin, And the Gaul and the German press loin unto loin; And the men of Italia and Hungary true Are surrounding the Flag of the Red, White and Blue!
CHORUS.
To the field! to the field! let no freeman delay! For our cause is the Union’s, our time is to-day! If the power of the Northland triumphant would be, It must rise like the tempest, and surge like the sea.
’Tis a cause--’tis a cause that makes heroes of all; For the Union, the Union to conquer or fall! ’Tis the cause of mankind, ’tis the cause of the world, That our swords are unsheathed for, our banners unfurled! And the heart of the vassal on Muscovite plains, And the soul of the Polander, weary of chains, And the pulse of the Magyar, the brain of the Greek, Will respond with the hopes that their lips dare not speak.
To the field! etc.
10 The Flag and the Union.
Loud roared Disunion’s thunder, And Treason’s fires burned red; Our nation, rent asunder, Beheld the tempest dread; From Sumter’s blazing spars, Our glorious flag of stars, Torn away, Prostrate lay, Under sway of Rebels, O!
But upward rose our Nation, Aroused by war’s alarms; With one loud declaration The people sprung to arms-- “Our Flag,” they cried, “shall wave! Our Union we will save! Clear the way, For the fray! We’ll repay these Rebels, O!”
“Our course by heaven is guided-- Its goal yet shines afar-- Our Union undivided-- Our flag with every star! From Rio Grande’s shore, To ice-bound Labrador, Land and sea Shall be free From the sway of Rebels, O!”
11 Draw the Sword, Northland.
Draw the sword, Northland! Northland! Northland! Too long have we parleyed with insolent foes; Arise for the Union, Union, Union! Even as for freedom our fathers arose! From valleys and mountains, clustering, clustering, From forest and prairie, and shores of the sea; For Freedom’s great battle-field mustering, mustering, Beneath the star-banner, the Flag of the Free! Draw the sword, Northland! Northland! Northland! Charge on Rebellion and all its dark powers; Strike for the Union, Union, Union! He who holds back is no comrade of ours!
Sheathe the sword, Northland! Northland! Northland! Only when Rebels no longer contend-- Only when Union, Union, Union! Shall weld a new bond that no Treason can rend! When the dread struggle is over, over, And Liberty’s duty is fairly done, We will offer our hands to the vanquished, vanquished, And bid them be once more the Many in One! Sheathe the sword, Northland! Northland! Northland! Only when Treason no longer lowers! Only when Union, Union, Union! For all the great Future, is ours, still ours!
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