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Patriotic music and readings were popular at the Chautauqua. This Reader's Theater combines song lyrics, poems and prose. Have the large group read the text in bold, small groups read the regular text and solo voices read the text in italics. |
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Patriotic music and readings were popular at the Chautauqua. This Reader's Theater combines song lyrics, poems and prose. Have the large group read the text in bold, small groups read the regular text and solo voices read the text in italics. |
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The Star-Spangled Banner
by Francis Scott Key
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
No Land Like Ours
by James Gates Percival
There is no other land like thee,
No dearer shore.
Thou are the shelter of the free,
The home, the port of liberty,
Thou hast been, and shalt ever be
Till time is o'er.
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
Concord Hymn
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
By the rude bride that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
O're the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming:
The Flag
by George F. Hoar
I have seen the glories of art of architecture and of river and
mountain. I have seen the sun set on the Jungfrau and the moon rise over
Mont Blanc. But the fairest vision on which these eyes ever rested was the
flag of my country in a foreign port. Beautiful as a flower to those who
love it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the
power and the glory and the honor of fifty millions of Americans.
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs burst in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Our Country's Flag
by Lydia Avery Doonley Ward
There are many flags in many lands,
There are flags of every hue,
There there is no flag, However grand,
Like our own 'red, white and blue.'
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
The Flag Goes By
by Bennett
Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles,
A ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky:
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!
O're the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
| For some really neat patriotic graphics and music go to Brownielocks. Patriotic music, midi and lyrics can be found at NIEHS Sing Along Songs. |
How many stars would the 'Star Spangled Banner' have had in 1900?
