Songs of Sea and Sail

<h2>THE CONSTITUTION.</h2> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Where Glory dwells a hundred years,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">That spot becomes a shrine,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The very soil she trod appears</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">To bear the touch divine;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The rusted gun, the shattered blade,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Are kept with sacred hand,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And Honor bows before the shade</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">That fought to save the land.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Then why neglect&mdash;why give to rot</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">This victor of the flood?</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Is she less holy than the spot</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">That drank a hero's blood?</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Has she no plume to wing a thought&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">No spark to fire a mind?</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">In names like her's such deeds are wrought</span><br/> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</SPAN></span></p> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">As glorify mankind.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And they, whose mighty banner fell</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Before her lightning's blast,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Their victor rides the harbor swell</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Unshorn of yard and mast;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And Glory gilds her like a sun,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">When, steaming thro' the wave,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">With dipping flag and rapid gun,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The brave salute the brave.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Then give ours back, the sail, the spar&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Go let her broadside roar!</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">A gun for every glit'ring star</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Her conquering ensign bore.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">To show ye have not held in vain</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The heritage she kept,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Oh, let her image grace again</span><br/> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</SPAN></span></p> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The sea she proudly swept!</span><br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />