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WE give thy natal day to hope	A
O Country of our love and prayer	B
Thy way is down no fatal slope	A
But up to freer sun and air	B
Tried as by furnace fires and yet	C
By God's grace only stronger made	D
In future tasks before thee set	C
Thou shalt not lack the old time aid	D
The fathers sleep but men remain	E
As wise as true and brave as they	F
Why count the loss and not the gain	E
The best is that we have to day	F
Whate'er of folly shame or crime	G
Withhin thy mighty bounds transpires	H
With speed defying space and time	G
Comes to us on the accusing wires	H
While of thy wealth of noble deeds	I
Thy homes of peace thy votes unsold	J
The love that pleads for human needs	I
The wrong redressed but half is told	J
We read each felon's chronicle	K
His acts his words his gallows mood	L
We know the single sinner well	M
And not the nine and ninety good	N
Yet if on daily scandals fed	O
We seem at times to doubt thy worth	P
We know thee still when all is said	O
The best and dearest spot on earth	P
From the warm Mexic Gulf or where	B
Belted with flowers Los Angeles	Q
Basks in the semi tropic air	B
To where Katahdin's cedar trees	R
Are dwarfed and bent by Northern winds	S
Thy plenty's horn is yearly filled	T
Alone the rounding century finds	U
Thy liberal soil by free hands tilled	T
A refuge for the wronged and poor	V
Thy generous heart has borne the blame	W
That with them through thy open door	X
The old world's evil outcasts came	W
But with thy just and equal rule	Y
And labor's need and breadth of lands	Z
Free press and rostrum church and school	Y
Thy sure if slow transforming hands	Z
Shall mould even them to thy design	A2
Making a blessing of the ban	B2
And Freedom's chemistry combine	A2
The alien elements of man	B2
The power that broke their prison bar	C2
And set the dusky millions free	D2
And welded in the flame of war	X
The Union fast to Liberty	D2
Shall if not deal with other ills	E2
Redress the red man's grievance break	F2
The Circean cup which shames and kills	E2
And Labor full requital make	F2
Alone to such as fitly bear	B
Thy civic honors bid them fall	G2
And call thy daughters forth to share	B
The rights and duties pledged to all	G2
Give every child his right of school	Y
Merge private greed in public good	T
And spare a treasury overfull	Y
The tax upon a poor man's food	T
No lack was in thy primal stock	H2
No weakling founders builded here	I2
Thine were the men of Plymouth Rock	H2
The Huguenot and Cavalier	J2
And they whose firm endurance gained	T
The freedom of the souls of men	K2
Whose hands unstained with blood maintained	T
The swordless commonwealth of Penn	K2
And thine shall be the power of all	Y
To do the work which duty bids	L2
And make the people's council hall	Y
As lasting as the Pyramids	L2
Well have thy later years made good	T
Thy brave said word a century back	M2
The pledge of human brotherhood	T
The equal claim of white and black	M2
That word still echoes round the world	T
And all who hear it turn to thee	D2
And read upon thy flag unfurled	T
The prophecies of destiny	D2
Thy great world lesson all shall learn	N2
The nations in thy school shall sit	T
Earth's farthest mountain tops shall burn	N2
With watch fires from thy own uplit	T
Great without seeking to be great	T
By fraud or conquest rich in gold	T
But richer in the large estate	T
Of virtue which thy children hold	T
With peace that comes of purity	T
And strength to simple justice due	T
So runs our loyal dream of thee	T
God of our fathers make it true	T
O Land of lands to thee we give	O2
Our prayers our hopes our service free	T
For thee thy sons shall nobly live	P2
And at thy need shall die for thee	T

John Greenleaf Whittier

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