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  THE
  ANTI-SLAVERY HARP:
  COLLECTION OF SONGS
  FOR
  ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS.

  COMPILED BY
  WILLIAM W. BROWN.

  THIRD EDITION.

  BOSTON:
  PUBLISHED BY BELA MARSH,
  No. 25 Cornhill.
  1851.




  Press of Bazin & Chandler,
  No. 37 Cornhill.




SONGS.




[Illustration]

FREEDOM’S BANNER.

                    AIR--Freedom’s Banner.


  My country, shall thy honored name,
    Be as a by-word through the world?
  Rouse! for as if to blast thy fame,
    This keen reproach is at thee hurled;
  The banner that above the waves,
    Is floating over three millions slaves.

  That flag, my country, I had thought,
    From noble sires was given to thee;
  By the best blood of patriots bought,
    To wave alone above the Free!
  Yet now, while to the breeze it waves,
  It floats above three millions slaves.

  The mighty dead that flag unrolled,
    They bathed it in the heaven’s own blue;
  They sprinkled stars upon each fold,
    And gave it as a trust to you;
  And now that glorious banner waves
  In shame above three millions slaves.

  O, by the virtues of our sires,
    And by the soil on which they trod,
  And by the trust their name inspires,
    And by the hope we have in God,
  Arouse, my country, and agree