Identifier: popularpatriotic00murp (find matches)
Title: Popular patriotic poems explained; a supplementary reader for use in public and private schools
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Murphy, D. C. (Dawsey Cope), b. 1855
Subjects: Readers
Publisher: New York city, Hinds, Noble & Eldredge
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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y of officers, I am only a sergeant. 5. This famous battle and the bravery displayed by the gallantdefenders of the fort, make one of the brightest pages in our history.The victory gave the colonists great delight, as it was their first,encounter with the boasted mistress of the seas.3 Colonel Moul-trie received the thanks of Congress, and the fort was afterward called.Fort Moultrie, in honor of its brave commander. i. -Twas late in June of seventy-six, A clear and beautiful day;Sir Parkers fleet from the stormy North Had arrived off Charleston bay,And lightly the ships skipped oer the main, With Englands red cross on high,Which gleaming in the sun again, Seemed a meteor in the sky. 2. Proudly the vessels danced oer the tide,Spurning the bright, rolling wave, I- RAMPARTS: An elevation or mound of earth round a place upon which the-parapet is placed. 2. PARAPET : An elevation of earth to protect soldiers. 3. MISTRESS OF THE SEAS: Name given to England on account of her naval supremacy.
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SERGEANT JASPER AND THE FLAG. BATTLE OF FORT MOULTRIE. 47 Neath which, before the evenings close,Would rest the proud and the brave; And many a frigates shattered sparsWould float on that lonely bay, Beneath the brightly glittering stars,Ere there dawned another day. 3. On sped the ships toward Charleston town, The pride of the sunny South,Unmolested through the open bay, Till they reach the harbors mouth ;Then a flash and a terrible roar Broke from the fort on the isle, And shot and shell on the vessels pour,Mowing down both rank and file. 4. The Britons fleet reeled before the stroke, And, swinging round in the tide,Poured iron hail on the little fort, With broadside after broadside.The blinding smoke half obscured the sun, And hung like a funeral pall,1Shrouding the men of war one by one, With their spars and masts so tall. 5. And still the battle is raging hot, Still the red-mouthed cannon roar,And ball for ball the Briton receives From Moultries men on the shore;And the blood-red

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