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os popy, almost, hus heard one
J} of our national songs, called “ The

Star-Spangled Banner,” which is

sung all over the country on the
fourth of July, if at no other time. It
is a song which finds its way, without
much ceremony, to every American
heart. The other day, I was reading an
account of the manner in which it came
to be written. It was composed by

Francis Key. A gentleman had left
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| Baltimore, during the war, with a flag

of truce, for the purpose of getting re-
leased from the British fleet a friend of
his, who had been captured at Marl-
borough. He went as far as the mouth
of the Patuxent, and was not permitted
to return, for fear he would disclose the
intended attack on Baltimore. So he
was brought up the bay to the mouth of
the Patapsco, where the flag-vessel was

kept under the guns of the frigate ; and
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