William McCarty, comp. The American National Song Book. 1842.
The Stripe and the StarCharles L. S. Jones
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Bears proudly the keels of the free and the brave,
Unmoved by the boasts which their courage decry,
Our fleet’s gallant pennons in buoyancy fly;
Though Albion in thunder descend, and her war
Break rough o’er the sons of the stripe and the star.
The sons of Columbia rush fearless to fight:
A hero presides o’er the battle-deck brave,
And the flag of Macdonough sweeps broad o’er the wave,
Where Freedom above, cheering smiles from her car,
And her laurel-wreaths twine round the stripe and the star.
Unequal, contend with the brave and the free,
Where Liberty scoffs at your vaunts and your pride,
And her conquest-crown’d navies in victory ride!
But bow your proud heads, as ye skulk from the war,
And bend to the sheen of the stripe and the star.