Count Felix sighed, and as he drew Her shawl about her, at his leisure, "What street?" he asked; "my cab is due." "No! no!" she said, "I go with you! That is if it may be your pleasure.' Of course, there's little need to say Arrived at home-just where a fount "Good night!" she said, "I'm very well, Altho you thought my health was fading; Be good-and I will never tell ('Twas funny tho) of what befell When you and I went masquerading!" 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; Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly stream ing? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses ? And where is the band who so vauntingly swore, A home and a country they'd leave us no more? Their blood hath washed out their foul footsteps' pol lution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between our loved home and the war's desolation; Blessed with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, |