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STAR
OF
COLUMBIA.
11s.
"Righteousness
exalteth
a
nation;
but
sin
is
a
reproach
to
any
people."-Prov.
14:34.
Dr.
Timo
thy
Dwight,
about
1777.
Key
of
A
Minor.
Miss
M.
T.
Durham,
1834.
1.
Co
-
lum-bia!
Co
-
lum-bia!
to
glo
-
r
y
a-rise,
The
queen
of
the
world,
and
the
child
of
the
skies;
Thy
gen
-
ius
commands
thee
with
2
To
con-quest
and
slaugh-ter
let
Eu
-
rope
as-pire.
Whelm
na-tions
in
blood,
or
wran
ci
-
ties
in
fire.
Thy
he
-
roes
the
rights
of
man -
3
Fair
si
-
ence
her
gate
to
thy
sons
shall
unbar,
And
the
east
see
thy
morn
hide
the
beams
of
her
star.
New
bards
and
new
sa
-
ges
un -
rap
-
tures
behold,
While
a
-
ges
on
a
-
ges
thy
splendours
un
-
fold;
Thy
reign
is
the
last
and
the
no
-
blest
of
time,
Most
kind
shall
de-fend,
And
tri
-
umph
pur
-
sue
them
and
glo
-
ry
at
-
tend,
A world
is
thy
realm,
for
a
world
be
thy
laws.
En -
rivalled
shall
soar,
To
fame
un-ex-tin-guish'd,
when
time
is
no more.
To the
last
ref
-
uge
of
vir
-
tue
de
-
sign
-
ed
shall
The
words
of
the
above
tune
were
composed
by
Dr.
Timothy
Dwight.
Born
North
Hampton,
Mass
,
1752,
died
1817,
He
graduated
at
Yale
College
at
the
age
of
17.
He
wrote
several
religious
poems
of
considerable
length.
In
1795
he
was
elected
President
of
Yale
College.
In
1800
he
revised
Watts'
Psalms
at
the request
of
the
General
Assembly
of
Conniticut,
adding
a
number
of
translations
of
his
own.
In
1777
he
became
Chaplain
in
the
Revolutionary
Army.
He
was
a
great
Theo-
logical
writer.
It
is
claimed
he
wrote
the
words
of
"Star
of
Columbia"
while
he
was
chaplain
in
the
army.
There
is
no
certainty
when
the
tune
was
composed
by
Miss
Durham.
It
was
published
in
Southern
Harmony
by
William
Walker
1835,
page
260;
in
Social
Harp
by
McCurry,
1855,
pages
63-4.
Its
date
is
not
given.
No
doubt
it
is
of
earlier
date
than
1835,
yet
this
is
the
first
time
we
have
been
able
to
find
a
book
containing
it.