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Carolina
Written by Henry
Timrod
Composed by Anne Custis Burgess
Hold up the glories of thy dead;
Say how thy elder children bled,
And point to Eutaw's battle-bed.
Carolina! Carolina!
Throw thy bold banner to the
breeze!
Front with thy ranks the
threatening seas
Like thine own proud armorial
trees,
Carolina! Carolina!
Thy skirts indeed the foe may
part,
Thy robe be pierced with sword
and dart,
They shall not touch thy noble
heart,
Carolina! Carolina!
Girt with such wills to do and
bear,
Assured in right, and mailed in
prayer,
Thou wilt not bow thee to
despair,
Carolina! Carolina!
Source:
http://www.leginfo.state.sc.us/scinfo/statesong.html
Acting on the memorial of the South
Carolina Daughters of the American
Revolution that the patriotic song
"Carolina," written by Henry Timrod,
South Carolina's most beloved poet,
set to music by Miss Anne Custis
Burgess, be made "legally the State
Song." The General Assembly, on
February 11, 1911, adopted Senator
W.L. Mauldin's Concurrent Resolution
that it "be accented and declared to
be the State Song of South
Carolina."
Submitted by: Tammy Bushey
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