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Show Our Literary Table. 1 St. Mary's Academy, Salt Lake. Our Banner Beautiful. Banner the fairest e'er flung to the wind, Liberty's emblem and hope of mankind, Deep in our hearts is fond love of thee shrined, v Rose of the morning and blue of the sea ' Blend with the light of the snow-wreath in thec; Str that besprinkle thy surface of'blue, Borrow their light from the flame in hearts true. When proudly floating beneath alien sky, liauy thou greetest the wanderer's eye, Then all unbudden the fond roar doth start And joy maketh music within his line heart. Fades from his vision the gay foreign strand; Forgotten its beauty, its wave-caressed strand; -High o're the azure and mist of the sea, j "vor the billows his thoughts swiftly flee. l!-'w lovely the pictures before him that rise! Mi- cottage, the wildwood, the soft arching skies, V'. bright glancing streamlet, the low-lisping rill, I '- Fwer-broidered banks, winding round the green hill, , . N"v soft to his ear come the meadow-lark notes, '! -ong of the thrush that o'er sapphire deep floats. A- That beautiful flag bringeth back the dead years, i !! low, tuneful vciee of his mother he hears, ; An l -ccs the fond father through glimmering. tears, ! Aain. in the gloaming, 'neath blossoming stars, "''iil, n(cjKr soft gleaming, and bright, ruddy Mars, I hears the home church bell break soft on the air, p'ifting' his spirit on pinions of prayer. i V.... flag of the fluttering red and white bars, j 1 apiniiis and conquerors led by thy stars, ''i' udly are wearing hard-won battle scars, ' rues none braver in all the round world. a.-ing pale death from the cannon's mouth hurled, 1 "i!ow- thee ever where'er fhou'rt unfurled. 'here din of battle the loudest doth rave, f :id red is ihe rain that the green turf doth lave, ! F.,,,ner all beautiful, there thou dost wave! ' :ag f our country, benath thy bright fold : F"o-pers the nation with blessings untold; . j t ! looting from sunrise to far sunset sea, ' F' 'idly thou waves, o'er mountain and lea, 1 wiling the snows of Alaska with rose, !.i lined by the breeze where ihe orange tree blows. ; ' "lor that, gleams in the web of thy folds. M v-tic the meaning for true hearts its hold; ' lienor all stainless glows in thy white, i Patriot love in thy crimson bars bright, And that blue field with the silver stars sown, i Emblem of truth that shall ne'er be o'crthrown. Thru hail! to our banner wherever it flies, 0't the isles of the sea or beneath the home skies; , ; , May it wave o'er our nation while ages shall run, j 4 ' ne among manv. and many in one!" j ROCE M'DONOUGII. Class 05. I St. Mary's Academy, Salt Lake,-Utah. . ' . |