Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-16 | Page 10 | When "America" Was Sung

WHEN AMERICA V WAS AS SUNG Oo one Fourth of July in Boston I had spent all m my allowance for July Tuly and all my my lect lection on money on the tho common common- po possibly for a n sight In in tho the camera obscura ob ob- scum cura thou though h I doubt if I had money enough for that that certainly certainly for raw oysters oy or ny throe three for a c cent nt if small two fora for a 1 cent if jf large probably half a glass s of spruce l beer 1 cent and two or three medals die medals die now lost lost anti and make mako what bat allowance you please for tamarinds cocoanuts sugar cane and other foreign delicacies I was returning return ing int penniless and had bad to pass Park street meeting house when an event of ot historical importance took place Lon Long columns of oC boys nn and girls wore going into meeting TIm Tho spectacle of a a. a sion of children ren going to meeting on onan an any day aj but Sunday was as wonderful to mo me as aR a volcanic eruption from tho the Blue hills would have havn been Of course I 1 joined the throng So Is it that I am amono amone ono one of the little company compa who heard the national hymn sung the tho first time Hy H country of thee Sweet land lanti of liberty H I 1 hope I did not join jom in the singing for nt at that time timo do 10 10 was to me even a are as asre asre re and mi ml and I 1 am ani afraid I 1 should hould not have havo improved on the the- harmonies of tho the occasion Edward Tard Edward Everett Hale