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Build me a nation said the Lord	A
The distant nations heard the word	B
Build me a nation true and strong	C
Bar out the old world's hate and wrong	C
For men had traced with blood and tears	D
The trail of weary wasting years	E
And torn and bleeding martyrs trod	F
Through fire and torture up to God	F
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While in the hollow of his hand	G
God hid the secret of our land	G
Men warred against their fiercest foes	H
And kingdoms fell and empires rose	H
Till weary of the old world strife	I
Men sought for broader freer life	I
And plunged into the ocean's foam	J
To find another better home	J
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And like a vision fair and bright	K
The new world broke upon their sight	K
Men grasped the prize grew proud and strong	C
And cursed the land with crime and wrong	C
The Indian stood despoiled of lands	L
The Negro bound with servile bands	L
Oppressed through weary years of toil	M
His blood and tears bedewed the soil	M
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Then God arose in dreadful wrath	N
And judgment streamed around his path	N
His hand the captive's fetters broke	O
His lightnings shattered every yoke	O
As Israel through the Red sea trod	F
Led by the mighty hand of God	F
They passed to freedom through a flood	P
Whose every wave and surge was blood	P
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And slavery with its crime and shame	Q
Went down in wrath and blood and flame	Q
The land was billowed o'er with graves	R
Where men had lived and died as slaves	R
Four and thirty years what change since	S
then	T
Beings once chattles now are men	T
Over the gloom of slavery's night	K
Has flashed the dawn of freedom's light	K
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To day no mother with anguish wild	U
Kneels and implores that her darling child	U
Shall not be torn from her bleeding heart	V
With its quivering tendrils rent apart	V
The father may soothe his child to sleep	W
And watch his slumbers calm and deep	W
No tyrant's tread will disturb his rest	X
Where freedom dwells as a welcome guest	X
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His walls may be bare of pictured grace	Y
His fireside the lowliest place	Y
But the wife and children sheltered there	Z
Are his to defend and guard with care	Z
Where haughty tyrants once bore rule	A2
Are ballot box and public school	A2
The old slave pen of former days	B2
Gives place to fanes of prayer and praise	B2
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To night we would bring our meed of praise	B2
To noble friends of darker days	B2
The men and women crowned with light	K
The true and tried in our gloomy night	K
To Lundy whose heart was early stirred	B
To speak for freedom an earnest word	B
To Garrison valiant true and strong	C
Whose face was as flint against our wrong	C
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And Phillips the peerless grand and brave	C2
A tower of strength to the outcast slave	C2
Earth has no marble too pure and white	K
To enrol his name in golden light	K
Our Douglass too with his massive brain	D2
Who plead our cause with his broken chain	D2
And helped to hurl from his bloody seat	E2
The curse that writhed and died at his feet	E2
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And Governor Andrew who looking back	F2
Saw none he despised though poor and black	F2
And Harriet Beecher whose glowing pen	T
Corroded the chains of fettered men	T
To night with greenest laurels we'll crown	G2
North Elba's grave where sleeps John Brown	G2
Who made the gallows an altar high	H2
And showed how a brave old man could die	H2
And Lincoln our martyred President	I2
Who returned to his God with chains he had rent	I2
And Sumner amid death's icy chill	J2
Leaving to Hoar his Civil Rights Bill	J2
And let us remember old underground	K2
With all her passengers northward bound	K2
The train that ran till it ceased to pay	L2
With all her dividends given away	L2
Nor let it be said that we have forgot	M2
The women who stood with Lucretia Mott	M2
Nor her who to the world was known	N2
By the simple name of Lucy stone	N2
A tribute unto a host of others	O2
Who knew that men though black were brothers	O2
Who battled against our nation's sin	P2
Whose graves are thick whose ranks are thin	P2
Oh people chastened in the fire	Q2
To nobler grander things aspire	R2
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In the new era of your life	I
Bring love for hate and peace for strife	I
Upon your hearts this vow record	A
That ye will build unto the Lord	A
A nobler future true and grand	G
To strengthen crown and bless the land	G
A higher freedom ye may gain	D2
Than that which comes from a riven chain	D2
Freedom your native land to bless	S2
With peace and love and righteousness	T2
As dreams that are past a tale all told	U2
Are the days when men were bought and sold	U2
Now God be praised from sea to sea	V2
Our flag floats o'er a country free	V2

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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