Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by JAMES, GREGORY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York

American Tre

WHEN Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,

She tore the azure robe of night,

And set the stars of glory there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,

And striped its pure celestial white
With streakings of the morning light;

Then from his mansion in the sun

She called her eagle-bearer down,
And gave into his mighty hand

The symbol of her chosen land.

THE AMERICAN FLAG.

Majestic monarch of the cloud,

Who rear'st aloft thy regal form

To hear the tempest-trumpings loud,
And see the lightning-lances driven,
When stride the warriors of the storm,
And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven!
Child of the sun! to thee 'tis given

To guard the banner of the free!
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
To ward away the battle stroke,

And bid its blendings shine afar,

The harbingers of victory!

Darley