POEMS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AMERICA _My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain-side Let freedom ring._ _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._ SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH. POEMS OF AMERICAN HISTORY COLLECTED AND EDITED BY BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON [Illustration] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1908 AND 1922, BY BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. COPYRIGHT NOTICE All rights on poems in this volume are reserved by the holders of the copyright. The publishers and others named in the following list are the proprietors, either in their own right or as agents for the authors, of the poems of which the authorship and titles are given, and of which the ownership is thus specifically noted and is hereby acknowledged. Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., New York.--William Cullen Bryant: "The Green Mountain Boys," "Seventy-Six," "Song of Marion's Men," "Oh Mother of a Mighty Race," "Our Country's Call," "Abraham Lincoln," "Centennial Hymn." Messrs. Richard D. Badger & Co., Boston.--Edwin Arlington Robinson: "The Klondike." The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis.--Charles Edward Russell: "The Fleet at Santiago," from "Such Stuff as Dreams." The Century Company, New York.--Richard Watson Gilder: "At the President's Grave," "Charleston," "The White City," "The Comfort of the Trees"; Robert Underwood Johnson: "Dewey at Manila"; Silas Weir Mitchell: "Herndon," "How the Cumberland went down," "Kearsarge," "Lincoln," "The Song of the Flags." From the Century Magazine.--William Tuckey Meredith: "Farragut"; Helen F. More: "What's in a Name"; Will Henry Thompson: "The High Tide at Gettysburg." The Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati.--William Davis Gallagher: "The Mothers of the West"; William Haines Lytle: "The Siege of Chapultepec," "The Volunteers." Messrs. Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia.--Ethel Lynn Beers: "The Picket-Guard"; Charles Fenno Hoffman: "Rio Bravo," "Monterey."