Blessed with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power 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_."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

The original star-spangled banner that waved over Fort McHenry in sight
of the poet when he wrote the famous hymn was made and presented to the
garrison by a girl of fifteen, afterwards Mrs. Sanderson, and is
still preserved in the Sanderson family at Baltimore.

[Illustration: Samuel F. Smith]

The additional stanza to the "Star-Spangled Banner"--

When our land is illumined with Liberty's smile, etc.,

--was composed by Dr. O.W. Holmes, in 1861.

The tune "Anacreon in Heaven" was an old English hunting air composed by
John Stafford Smith, born at Gloucester, Eng. 1750. He was composer for
Covent Garden Theater, and conductor of the Academy of Ancient Music.
Died Sep. 20, 1836. The melody was first used in America to Robert Treat
Paine's song, "Adams and Liberty." Paine, born 1778--died 1811, was the
son of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

"STAND! THE GROUND'S YOUR OWN, MY BRAVES."

Sympathetic admiration for the air, "Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled,"
(or "Bruce's address," as it was commonly called), with the syllables of
Robert Burns' silvery verse, lingered long in the land after the wars
were ended. It spoke in the poem of John Pierpont, who caught its
pibroch thrill, and built the metre of "Warren's Address at the Battle
of Bunker Hill" on the model of "Scots wha hae."

Stand! the ground's your own, my braves;
Will ye give it up to slaves?
Will ye look for greener graves?

* * * * *

In the God of battles trust:
Die we may, or die we must,
But O where can dust to dust
Be consigned so well,

As where Heaven its dews shall shed,
On the martyred patriot's bed,
And the rocks shall raise their head
Of his deeds to tell?

This poem, written about 1823, held a place many years in school-books,
and was one of the favorite school-boy declamations. Whenever sung on
patriotic occasions, the music was sure to be "Bruce's Address." That
typical Scotch tune was played on the Highland bag-pipes long before
Burns was born, and known as "Hey tutti