Posted by Ted (152.163.197.74) on September 12, 2001 at 11:57:57:
In Reply to: Sympathy but no politics. posted by Don Pearson UK on September 12, 2001 at 05:27:29:
GOD BLESS AMERICA
God bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her,
And guide her,
Thru the night with a light from above.
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From the mountains,
To the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam.
God bless America,
My home, sweet, home,
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God bless america,
My home, sweet, home.
STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER
John Philip Sousa
Hurrah for the flag of the free!
May it wave as our standard forever,
The gem of the land and the sea,
The banner of the right.
Let despots remember the day
When our fathers with mighty endeavor
Proclaimed as they marched to the fray
That by their might and by their right
it waves forever.
THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
Oh! say can you see,
By the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight's last gleaming?
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Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
Through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched
were so gallantly streaming?
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And the rockets red glare,
the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night
that our flag was still there.
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Oh! say does that star-spangled
banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave?
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On the shore, dimly seen
Thro' the mist of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host
In dread silence reposes,
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What is that which the breeze,
O'er the tower steep,
As it fitfully blows,
Half conceals, half discloses?
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Now it catches the gleam
of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected,
now shines on the stream.
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'Tis the star-spangled banner.
Oh! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave.
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And where is that band
Who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war
and the battle's confusion
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A home and a country
should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out
their foul footstep's pollution.
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No refuge could save
the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight,
or the gloom of the grave,
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And the star-spangled banner
in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave.
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Oh! thus be it ever,
When freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes
and the war's desolation,
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Blest with vict'ry and peace,
May the Heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made
and preserved us a nation.
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Then conquer we must,
For our cause it is just,
And this be our motto--
"In God is our trust."
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And the star-spangled banner
in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free,
and the home of the brave.