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My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,

Thy name I love.

I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.

Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees-
Sweet freedom's song.

Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.

Our fathers' God! To Thee,
Author of liberty,

To thee we sing.

Long may our land be bright,
With freedom's holy light;

Protect us by Thy might,

Great God, our King!

(b) Battle Hymn of the Republic.

BY JULIA WARD HOWE.

1. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;

His truth is marching on.

CHORUS.

Glory! glory! Hallelujah!

Glory! glory! Hallelujah!

Glory! glory! Hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

2.

3.

4.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Chorus.

I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on."
Chorus.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.

Chorus.

5. In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
And He died to make men holy; let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Chorus.

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2.

3.

Thy banners make tyranny tremble,
When borne by the red, white and blue.
When borne by the red, white and blue;
When borne by the red, white and blue;
Thy banners make tyranny tremble,
When borne by the red, white and blue.

When war wing'd its wide desolation,
And threatened the land to deform,
The ark then of freedom's foundation,
Columbia, rode safe thro' the storm.
With the garlands of vict'ry around her,
When so proudly she bore her brave crew,
With her flag proudly floating before her,
The boast of the red, white and blue.

The boast of the red, white and blue;
The boast of the red, white and blue;
With her flag proudly floating before her,
The boast of the red, white and blue.

The star-spangled banner bring hither;
O'er Columbia's true sons let it wave.
May the wreaths they have won never wither,
Nor its stars cease to shine on the brave.
May the service united ne'er sever,

But hold to their colors so true;

The Army and Navy for ever!

Three cheers for the red, white and blue!

Three cheers for the red, white and blue! 1
Three cheers for the red, white and blue!

The Army and Navy for ever!

Three cheers for the red, white and blue!

(e) Star Spangled Banner.

BY FRANCIS SCOTT KEYES.

1. Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,

2.

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there!
CHORUS.

Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream;
CHORUS.

'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

3.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more?

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution!
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
CHORUS.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

§§27-29]

VERSES AND PLAYS

4. Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and wild war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto, "In God is our trust."
CHORUS.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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J. [§28] WAR PLAYS.

Several dramas have been based upon the war, some of which have been produced in many places. The following is a brief list. Several open air pageants have been prepared, of which The Carnegie Tech War Pageant, first presented by the students of the Carnegie Institute of Technology of Pittsburgh has been repeated at Chautauqua and in various places in West Virginia. It could be secured for other places.

Artizibashef, Michael. War: A Play in Four Acts. (N. Y., Knopf, 1916.) Barrie, J. M. "Der Tag"; or The Tragic Man. (N. Y., Scribner, 1914.) Brownell, Atherton. Unseen Empire: A Peace Play in Four Acts. (N. Y., Harper, 1914.)

Dix, Beulah M. Moloch. (N. Y., Knopf, 1916.) An indictment of war. Galsworthy, John. The Mob: A Play in Four Acts. (N. Y., Scribner, 1914.)

James, May F. Weighed in the Balance. (Boston, Gorham Press, 1917.) Mygatt, Tracy D. Watchfires. (N. Y., 1917.) Peace play.

Dra

Phillips, Stephen. Armageddon: a Modern Epic Drama. 1915.)

Noyes, Alfred. A Belgian Christmas Eve. (N. Y., Stokes, 1915.) matic poem.

(N. Y., Lane,

Roberts, C. V. H. The Sublime Sacrifice; a War Drama.
Torch Press, 1917.)

(N. Y., etc.,

Wentworth, Marion C. War Brides: A Play in One Act. tury, 1915.)

(N. Y., Cen

K. SELECT LISTS OF WAR MATERIALS.

1. [$29] Valuable Free Material.

The United States Government through its various departments and bureaus, and especially through its Committee on Public Information, distributes material to applicants, much of which is of great significance. Numerous private societies do the same and are anxious to distribute their publications widely. The following titles will be found useful.

See also List of Patriotic Societies (§5 above) and the Publications of Societies ($10 above).

American Association for International Conciliation. Official Documents Regarding the European War, Series I-XIV (Nos. 83-90, 93-96, 101, 103, 104). Contains most of the official series of documents, etc., all in English version. These are numbers of the (monthly) International Conciliation. See $18 above.

The Battle Line of Democracy. Prose and Poetry of the World War. (Wash., Govt. Print. Office, 1917.) See $25 above.

Belgium, Commission of Inquiry. Case of Belgium in the Present War:
An Account of the Violation of the Neutrality of Belgium and of the
Laws of War on Belgian Territory. (N. Y., Macmillan, 1914.)
$99 below.

See

Bryce, James, Viscount. Chairman of Committee. Evidence and documents
laid before the committee on alleged German outrages. (London,
Unwin, 1915. N. Y., Macmillan, 1915.) See $110 below.
Bryce, James, Viscount. (Chairman of Committee.) Report of the Com-
mittee on Alleged German Outrages appointed by His Britannic
Majesty's Government. (N. Y., Macmillan, 1915.) See $110 below.
Columbia War Papers. (N. Y., Columbia University, 1917.) See §10 above.
Committee on 'Public Information, National Service Handbook.

(Wash.,

the Committee, 1917.) See $4 above. Committee on Public Information. Red, White and Blue Series. (Wash., the Committee, 1917.) See $20 above. Committee on Public Information.

War Information Series.

(Wash.,

the Committee, 1917.) See $20 above. Emery, Henry C. Some Economic Aspects of War. (Wash., Govt. Print. Office, 1914.) See $120 below.

Great Britain-Foreign Office, 1916. The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-16. Documents presented to Viscount Grey by Viscount Bryce. (London, Unwin, 1916.) See $113 below.

Library of Congress. (H. H. B. Meyer, compiler.) List of References on Europe and International Politics in Relation to the Present Issues. (Wash., Govt. Print. Office, 1914.) See $16 above.

Library of Congress. (H. H. B. Meyer, compiler.) United States at War; Organization and Literature. (Wash., Govt. Print. Office, 1917.) See 16 above.

Mez, John R. Peace Literature of the War. Material for the study of international polity. (N. Y., Amer. Assoc. for Internat. Conciliation, 1916.) See §16 above.

Navy Department. Annual Reports. (Wash., Govt. Print. Office.) See $20 above.

New York (City). Mayor's Committee on National Defence. The Mobilization of the National Guard, 1916. Its Economic and Military Aspects. Reports of the executive committee. (N. Y., 1917.) See $131 below.

State Department. Diplomatic Correspondence with Belligerent Governments Relating to Neutral Rights and Commerce. (Wash., Govt. Print. Office, 1914-1917.) See $18 above.

War Department. Annual Reports. (Wash., Govt. Print. Office.) See §20

above.

Wilson, President Woodrow. Committee on Public Information.

War

message and facts behind it, delivered before Congress April 2, 1917, with annotations. (rev. ed.; Wash., Govt. Print. Office, 1917.) See §19 above.

2. [$30] A Ten Dollar List.

A minimum list which should be at the service of the speaker at all times appears in Handbook of the War, §9, in which are also included some of the gratis material. The following is a revised list of books costing together about ten dollars: Archer, William. Gems of German Thought. (N. Y., Doubleday, Page, 1917; $1.25.)

Beck, James M. The War and Humanity. (2d ed., N. Y., Putnam, 1917; $1.50.) On America's concern in the war.

Bernhardi, Friedrich von. Germany and the Next War. (N. Y., authorized Am. translation, Longmans, 1912; $ .75.) By the chief exponent of the philosophy of Prussian militarism, a general who has had a command in the European war.

Hart, Albert Bushnell, and Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Editors.) Handbook of the War for Public Speakers. (N. Y., Nat. Security League, 1917; $ .25.) This is the briefer companion book to America at War, made up on about the same plan except that it contains summary statements at the beginning of each chapter and that the bibliography is confined to a few pages, intended to be carried in the pocket by public speakers. Roosevelt, Theodore. Fear God and Take Your Own Part. (N. Y., Doran, 1916; $1.50.)

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