--MOTHER MARY LOYOLA. THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER perilous ramparts haughty conceals conquer desolation hireling confusion motto triumph reposes pollution Oh say, can you see by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming-- Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On that shore dimly seen through 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; ’Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore ’Mid the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, A home and a country shall 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. And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation; Blest with victr’y and peace, may the heaven-rescued land, Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for 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. HOW AMERICA WAS DISCOVERED I THE ITALIAN SAILOR Italian belief finally dangerous Indies ocean theory persuade Europe imagine journey furnish About four hundred years ago there came to Spain an Italian sailor who believed that the earth is round. Such a belief may not seem at all strange to us, but to the people of that time it appeared to be very foolish and unreasonable. Almost everybody laughed at the Italian, and called him a silly fellow. “Have you eyes?” they asked. “If so, you need only to open them and look about you to see that the earth is as flat as the top of a table.”