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My country by our fathers reared	A
As champion of the world's opprest	A
Whose moral force the tyrant feared	A
Whose flag all struggling freemen cheered	A
In clutching at an empire's crest	A
Thou too art fallen like the rest	A
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Not in thy numbers wealth or might	A
Proud mistress of a continent	A
For rival nations at the sight	A
Of thy resources view with fright	A
Thy progress without precedent	A
Not there is seen thy swift descent	A
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Reread the story of thy birth	B
Recall the years in conflict spent	A
To prove to a despairing earth	B
That every Government of worth	B
Is really based on free consent	A
Then view with shame thy present bent	A
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Thou hadst a place unique sublime	C
In many a land beyond the sea	D
The victims of despotic crime	C
In thee the latest born of Time	C
Beheld a land from tyrants free	D
The sacred Ark of Liberty	D
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But now the Old World's lust for lands	E
Infects thee too the dread disease	F
Hath left its plague spots on thy hands	E
Thy monster area still expands	E
For blind to history's Nemesis	G
Thou too wouldst alien races seize	F
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Condemning with profound disdain	H
All other nations' heartless greed	A
How couldst thou buy from humbled Spain	H
A people struggling to attain	H
A freedom suited to their need	A
Why stultify thy boasted creed	A
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Thine aid to them thou mightst have given	I
As France her aid once gave to thee	D
With them thy sons might well have striven	I
And their blood rusted fetters riven	I
But why in Heaven's name should we	D
Shoot men aspiring to be free	D
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I tread the fields where thousands sleep	J
The blood soaked fields that freed the slave	K
What precious memories still they keep	J
For hearts that mourn and eyes that weep	J
Yet for the lives those heroes gave	K
What have we that they died to save	K
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A Union Yes outstretched in might	A
From snow to palm from sea to sea	D
But pledged to use its strength aright	A
And evermore to keep alight	A
The torch of human liberty	A
Is this the Union that we see	A
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Where history's Martyr dared to break	L
The power that held a race in chains	M
I see the ghastly lynching stake	L
Where brutal mobs their vengeance take	L
And since no law their course restrains	M
Gloat o'er their writhing victim's pains	M
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Race hatred born of groundless fears	N
And narrow prejudice of caste	A
Now greets the cultured black with sneers	N
And barring him from high careers	N
Breaks like a mad iconoclast	A
The nation's idols of the past	A
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No more can we with steadfast eyes	O
Protest when tortured races moan	P
With hands uplifted toward the skies	O
Their tyrants answer with surprise	O
And new born insolence of tone	P
These are our lynchings cure your own	P
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Yet hope remains A path retraced	A
Is nobler than persistent wrong	Q
A fault confessed is half effaced	A
That land alone can be disgraced	A
Which is not just however strong	Q
Toward those to whom its spoils belong	Q
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My country Would to God that praise	R
Might leave my lips instead of blame	S
So near the parting of the ways	R
Subjected to the eager gaze	R
Of millions jealous of thy fame	S
Retrace the path that ends in shame	S

John L. Stoddard

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