The beam translucent, neutrifying death;
And raise to immortality the rag.
This "anthem" was greatly praised by a celebrated German scholar; but the committee felt obliged to reject it on account of its too childish simplicity.
Here we have a
NATIONAL ANTHEM
BY WILLIAM CULLEN B——.
The sun sinks softly to his evening post,
The sun swells grandly to his morning crown;
Yet not a star our flag of Heav'n has lost,
And not a sunset stripe with him goes down.