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Show nnd laid- lit 1 1 1 - drown :tttl Anchor inn in Britain's oh ciipiiiil. Ralph Summers was the lirst president of the society and In him is ascribed the nu-l nu-l heirship of ihu following nonsensical linos, which wore suns nl every incut-lug incut-lug of the society : To Anacreon In heaven, wli'-re l.e sat in full Rlee, The bold sons of Harmony sent a petition, peti-tion, f That he their Inspirer and Patron would be, When this answer arrived from the Jolly old Grecian: ' O -. -.--o I Your Flag and i My Flag j By WILBUR. D. fjESBIT j Q ............. .......... O "YOUR Flag and my Flag! And oh. how much it holds Your land and my land secure within its folds! Your heart and my heart beat quicker at the sight; Sun-kissed and wind-tossed, red and blue and white, The one Flag the great Flag the Flag for me and you ' Glorifies all else beside the red and white and blue. "YUR Flag and my Flag! And how it flies today In your land and my land and half a world awayl Rose-red and blood-red the stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and souUwhite the good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true blue, with stars to gleam aright Th gloried guidon of the day; a shelter through the night Y"0Ur P'8 and rny Flag) To every star and stripe The drums beat as hearts beat and fifers shrilly pipei Your Flag and my Flag a blessing in the sky; Your hope and my hope-1 It never hid a liel ! Home land and far land and half the world around. Old Glory hears our glad ial'ite and ripples to the soundl rf ? I I Pt 1 I n v' English Musician Said to Have Composed fVlusic for Key's Anthem. N regard to the tune of the "Star Spangled Banner" much lias been said and Vi J, written. Over the first np-w np-w pearance of the poem in print were the words, "Tune Anacreon In Heaven." The question as to who set Key's words to this air is. yet unsettled. Some friends of the descendants of the poet declare that Key was stone deaf and could neither sing nor recognize a tune, and that his friend, Judge Nicholson, who seems to have acted as press igent in the matter of, placing the song before the public, found that the lines fitted this air, already used for several patriotic pa-triotic songs of the day. Others say that Mr. Key wrote his lines to fit this John Stafford Smith. "Voice, Fiddle and Flute, No longer be mute; I'll lend you my name and Inspire you to boot. And besides I'll instruct you like m to entwine The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus' Vine.". The tune became very popular In England and the musical Intercourse between the two countries was too lively "In those days to permit a well-known well-known air to remain barred from our shores.- A "Columbian Anacreontic society," so-ciety," founded in New York in 1705, in imitation of the London club, undoubtedly un-doubtedly did its part in familiarising the tune. It was perhaps first used in this country in connection with patriotic words when it was sung to the verses entitled "Adams and Liberty," written by Robert Treat Paine in 1798. The stirring words, of xourse, referred to the second president of the Utsited States. The first lines are as follows : Te sons of Columbia, who bravely have fought For those rights, which unstained from your sires had descended, May you long taste the blessings your valor has brought And your sons reap the soil which your fathers defended. Other patriotic words carried the same air at later periods and it was familiar to the American people when it was added to "The Star Spangled Banner" for all time. A If r? Yx A IvV4III.jV i Francis Scott Key. popular tune, otherwise it could not so perfectly have followed its peculiar meter. This is still an open question, but Mr. Sonneck has run down the facts of the creation of the tune now familiar fa-miliar to practically every man, woman wom-an and child in the United States to an almost certain point, which is that it was most probably composed by John Stafford Smith, an English musician who lived between the dates of 1750 and 1836. Anacreon, the old Greek poet who sang the praise of wine and beauty, was the patron saint of the Anacreontic Anacreon-tic society of London, which held its convivial meetings first at Ludgate Hill The Flag in God's House. v r C JSv AWV! rr V ? i J 3 ,'Vi ', s VV1 P rl " l n U il r I K Huh I I 1 h n I a H yM il - . ' I ? Even the Churches Display-trie Display-trie National Colors. Above Is Shown the Flag in trie Nave of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, r' "'e-v YorK. |