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THE STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER.
   
Complete Explanation:
An illustrated sheet music cover for "The Stars and Stripes Forever," a song dedicated to the United States Volunteers by William J. Lemon. A figure representing the Constitution is shown wearing a Phrygian cap and holding a shield in her left hand and the American flag, topped by a laurel wreath, in her right. To her right is the American eagle, and at her left attributes, including a globe, a palette, and a lyre. She stands on a mound of earth marked "United States of America." A second eagle flies above her. The scene is accompanied by the following verse:

The God of Battles smiled' Justice triumphed:

The Stars & Stripes, Columbia's Sacred Flag

Like Eagles pinions Fluttered to the breeze.


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