Thus closes my notes for the month of December and also for the year just passed and gone and now numbered with the things that were. Whether the Almighty will spare me to chronicle the daily events of the incoming year is more than I know but trusting in Him I shall enter upon the pleasing task, which is useful as a reference and may be profitable to those who have an interest in me.
Texas!
ReplyDeleteUp! up with the Lone Star banner!
Its hues are still as bright
As when its glories braved the breeze
At San Jacinto's fight;
Its fluttering folds in glory waved
O'er many a gory brow;
The freedom that was conquered then
Will not be yielded now.
The honor of that Lone Star Flag
That floats the blue above,
Is held as dear by Texan hearts
As that of her they love;
And not a stain shall dim its hues
While yet a man remains
To save its flower encircled land
From ignominious chains.
That banner with the single star,
Is Freedom's favored sign;
Beneath its folds unfurled to-day
Her purest glories shine;
And in the whirlwind and the storm,
Amid the crash and jar,
Her brightest hopes still rest upon
That Solitary Star.
CHARLESTON MERCURY, February 7, 1861, p. 4, c. 1