Shall be linked to us by heart and hand instead!
Truth. July 1, 1886.
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MY MARYLAND.
This song was written in April, 1861, by Mr. James R. Randall, a native of Baltimore, and first published in The Delta, whence it was soon copied into every journal in the Southern States.
It is sung to the tune of a favourite college song, entitled “Lauriger Horatius,” which itself is borrowed from a German air known as “Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum.” Two young ladies, Miss H. Cary and Miss Jennie Cary, first set it to music, and sung it to the Confederate troops in their camp at Manassas.
The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door,
Maryland!