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1 My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,-
Of thee I sing:

Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrim's pride,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring!

2 My native country, thee,-
Land of the noble free,-
Thy name I love:

I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.

3 Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song!
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break, -
The sound prolong!

4 Our fathers' God, to thee, Author of liberty,

To thee we sing:

Long may our land be bright

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I God bless our native land!
Firm may she ever stand

Through storm and night!
When the wild tempests rave,
Ruler of wind and wave,
Do thou our country save,
By thy great might!

2 For her our prayers shall be, Our fathers' God, to thee,

On thee we wait!
Be her walls holiness;
Her rulers, righteousness;
Her officers be peace;

God save the state.

3 Lord of all truth and right, In whom alone is might,

On thee we call!

Give us prosperity;

Give us true liberty;

May all the oppressed go free;

God save us all!

Hymns of the Spirit

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I Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored!
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

2 I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I have read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His day is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah, etc.

3 I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel; 66 As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on."

Glory, glory, hallelujah, etc.

4 He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment-seat:
O be swift, my soul, to answer him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah, etc.

5 In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

While God is marching on.

Julia Ward Howe, 1819

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