“By the splendor of God!” was a characteristic oath of William the Conqueror.     By the splendor of God! We come! We come!    To fight to the…

    By the Revolution’s dead,    By their Blood in battle shed,    By the Earth that drank their gore,    By the Heaven in which they soar,    By the Union Stripe and…

    ‘Tis daily this baste    Will prosade to the fayste,    The best that Ould Oireland has seen;    The P’s are but three,    But they’re plenty for me, –     The Pratie, the…

    With pensive memories    We part the Ocean foam,    To find ‘neath summer skies    A country and a home.    O lily land of France,    Farewell! Farewell, Paris! (Pa-ree)    Farewell to Life’s romance!    Welcome…

    As I stroll by the stream where you stray,    A beam is reflected afar,    Which seems, on the waters, a ray –     The ray from a luminous star.    What…

    Swift o’er the lee when the wind flies free,    Follows the ship “Ohio,”    With skies o’ercast she bends to the blast,    Like a billowy bird she can fly,…

    There is blood upon the Banner, the Banner of the Free,    There is blood upon our Banner, and it lies ‘twixt you and me,    And, like the blood of…

    I plead with tears to thee,    Sweet warbler of the shade,    Breathe not such strains to me,    The sweetest ever made.    Who bade thee slight my woes?    Who taught to…

    Dead! Where the bold and brave    Blend in one bloody grave;    Dead! With no coward clay    Weltering in gore that day.    Dead! Dead! Ah! – Dead to me.     Dead!…

    That luscious lip, the British Gyp,    I leave to rove, a reckless ranger,    To seek a life, with War for wife,    Defying Death, despising danger;    Yet while I speed…