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!”
CURTAIN
The quotations used have been selected from the following:
| Ready, Aye, Ready | Herman C. Merivale |
| I Give My Soldier Boy a Blade | William Maginn |
| Horatius at the Bridge | Thomas B. Macaulay |
| Columbus | Joaquin Miller |
| Unmanifest Destiny | Henry Holcomb Bennett |
| The Parting of the Ways | Joseph B. Gilder |
| (To fit the context the first line of this poem has been slightlychanged. The original reads, “Untrammelled Giant of the West.”) | |
| A Song of the Allies | Irene Brush |
| To England | George Henry Boker |
| To America | Alfred Austin |
| The American Flag | Charles G. Crellin |
| Armageddon | Edwin Arnold |
| Marco Bozzarius | Fitz-Greene Halleck |
NOTES ON MUSIC
To fit the context the last line of the Japanese National Song has been slightly altered.