Maryland, My Maryland
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Remember Carroll's sacred trust, Remember Howard's warlike thrust,- And all they slumberers with the just, Maryland! Come with thy panoplied array, Maryland, My Maryland!
Virginia should not call in vain! She meets her sisters on the plain- "Sic semper! I see the blush upon thy cheek, Maryland, My Maryland!
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For thou wast ever bravely meek, Maryland, My Maryland! There surges forth a shriek From hill to hill, from creek to creek- Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland!
From a Mexican restaurant to a beer bar, read on for a rundown of the newest businesses to arrive near you. Lee ordered his troops to sing "Maryland, My Maryland", as they entered the town of Frederick , Maryland, but his troops received a cold response, as Frederick was located in the unionist western portion of the state. The poem was a result of events at the beginning of the American Civil War. Slavery would have faded away, and the southern states would probably have petitioned to be let back in to the Union. For life and death, for woe and weal, Thy peerless chivalry reveal, And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel, Maryland! Many of these troops were brought through Baltimore City , a major transportation hub. Come with thy panoplied array, Maryland!
But even though Maryland remained in the Union during the war, it falls south of the Mason Dixon Line. The State Archives describes the somewhat ambiguous position Maryland held, saying it "was walking a tightrope between the Union and the Confederacy. In addition to being physically between the two sides, Maryland depended equally on the North and the South for its economy. Although Maryland had always leaned toward the south culturally, sympathies in the state were as much pro-Union as they were pro-Confederate.
Set to the tune of "O, Tannenbaum," Randall's poem became a song, attaining popularity in Maryland and farther south, but it wasn't until that it was officially adopted as the state song.
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Bob Cassilly told NPR in an email that while he disagrees with the Confederate cause Randall extolled, he said the poem also invokes the Revolutionary War. Senate Minority Leader J.
Jennings, a Republican, dismissed the measure as "a participation trophy bill" and a "waste of time," reports The Baltimore Sun. But lawmakers in neighboring Virginia successfully voted in to retire their state song originally titled "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" that was seen as a paean to slavery.
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The Baltimore Sun reported in that lawmakers had revisited the song at least eight times since it was adopted. The blacks sold their own people to the whites. It shows their intelligence by trying to destroy history.. A shame to not pay the song — a real lack of understanding by the present UofMD administration.
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"Maryland, My Maryland" is the official state song of the U.S. state of Maryland. The song is set to the melody of "Lauriger Horatius" — the same tune "O. "Maryland, My Maryland," written early in the Civil War, praises the Confederacy. State senators now have voted to reclassify the song as.
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Senators pass bill stripping 'Maryland, My Maryland' of 'official' status
By Kimberly Eiten August 28, at Maryland My Maryland , University of Maryland. University spokesperson Katie Lawson released the following statement: Another student, Cheyenne Jones, opposingly feels that doing away with the song is better.
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