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.
The original star-spangled banner that waved over Fort McHenry in sight of the poet when he wrote the famous hymn was made and presented to the garrison by a girl of fifteen, afterwards Mrs. 387 / 335 Sanderson, and is still preserved in the Sanderson family at Baltimore.
The additional stanza to the “Star-Spangled Banner”—
When our land is illumined with Liberty's smile, etc.,
—was composed by Dr. O.W. Holmes, in 1861.
The tune “Anacreon in Heaven” was an old English hunting air composed by John Stafford Smith, born at Gloucester, Eng. 1750. He was composer for Covent Garden Theater, and conductor of the Academy of Ancient Music. Died Sep. 20, 1836. The melody was first used in America to Robert Treat Paine's song, “Adams and Liberty.” Paine, born 1778—died 1811, was the son of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
“STAND! THE GROUND'S YOUR OWN, MY BRAVES.”
Sympathetic admiration for the air, “Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled,” (or “Bruce's address,” as it was commonly called), with the syllables of Robert Burns' silvery verse, lingered long in the land after the wars were ended. It spoke in the poem of John Pierpont, who caught its pibroch thrill, and built the metre of “Warren's Address at the Battle of Bunker Hill” on the model of “Scots wha hae.”