Lift Every Voice and Sing
VERSE 1
Lift
every voice and sing, till earth and Heaven ring,
Ring
with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our
rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies,
Let it
resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a
song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a
song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing
the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us
march on till victory is won.
VERSE 2
Stony
the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in
the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with
a steady beat, have not our weary feet,
Come to
the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have
come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have
come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered;
Out from
the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
Where
the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
VERSE 3
God of
our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Thou who
hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who
hast by Thy might, led us into the light,
Keep us
forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our
feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee.
Lest our
hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee.
Shadowed
beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand,
True to
our God, true to our native land.
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