BY JOHN PIERPONT.
Air—Star-Spangled Banner.
The harp of the minstrel with melody rings
When the Muses have taught him to touch and to tune it;
But though it may have a full octave of strings,
To both maker and minstrel the harp is a unit.
So the power that creates our republic of States,
Into harmony brings them at different dates;
And the thirteen or thirty, the Union once done,
Are “E Pluribus Unum”—of many made one.