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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party	Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-	Unknown 18, 19, 20 Air: Yankee Doodle.
A Song of the Flag	M. Woolsey Stryher	Unknown 20 Air: Yankee Doodle.
Ode for Washington’s Birthday Written for the celebration of the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 22, 1856.	Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-	Ludwig van Beethoven 21 1770-1827. From the choral setting of Schiller’s Hymn of Joy at the close of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
The Sword of Bunker Hill	William Ross Wallace 1819-1881.	Bernard Covert 22, 23
Song of the Negro Boatman From the poem At Port Royal.	John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892.	Wenzel Müller 24, 25 1767-1835.
Hymn sung at St. Helena’s Island, S. C.	John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892.	Albert Gottlieb Methfessel 26 1785-1869.
Where the Eagle is King	Thomas Buchanan Read 1822-1872.	William F. Hartley 27, 28, 29
Now	Philip Paul Bliss 1838-1876.	Philip Paul Bliss 30, 31
Laus Deo! Written on hearing the bells ring on the passage of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.	John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892.	Jonathan Battishill 32 1738-1801.
Swanee River This song, Old Folks at Home, one of the best known ever written, is one of Foster’s famous Plantation Melodies.	Stephen Collins Foster 1826-1864.	Stephen Collins Foster 33
Ready	Phoebe Cary 1824-1871.	Unknown 34, 35
Battle Hymn of the Republic Written in Washington during the Civil War, where the author had listened for hours to the tramp of marching troops going to the front.	Julia Ward Howe 1819-	Unknown 36, 37 Air: John Brown's Body. The melody was first known to be used in a negro Presbyterian church in Charleston, S. C, in 1859. Soon after it was used in the North with the words, "Say, brothers, will you meet us?" During the Civil War this song became very popular with the soldiers and the people.
The Sweet Little Man Dedicated to the Stay-at-Home Rangers.	Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-	Scotch Air 38, 39 Air: Bonnie Dundee.
Our Country From the poem read at a celebration on July 4, 1883.	John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892.	Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 40, 41 1809-1847.
Tenting on the Old Camp-Ground Written while the author was preparing to go to the front as a soldier.	Walter Kittredge 1832-	Walter Kittredge 42, 43
Decoration Day	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882.	Johann Aegidius Geyer 43
The Flag	James Riley	L. V. H. Crosby 44 Air: Dearest Mae. Also, It was my Last Cigar.
Centennial Hymn Written for the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia, 1876.	John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892.	John Knowles Paine 45 1839-