Beautiful Union! Liberty’s home!
More queenly than Greece, more immortal than Rome!
How fondly thy name in our love is enshrined--
How close to all hearts are thy glories entwined;
For Freedom’s bright banner waves over thy soil,
And beneath it, secure, every freeman may toil;
For of all the world’s lands there is no land like thee,
My Beautiful Union! The Land of the Free!
Beautiful Union! Pride of the earth!
With thee all the hopes of the people had birth;
Thy shores are their refuge from tyranny’s ban--
Where justice and freedom are pledged unto man!
And the dastard who doubts thee, the wretch who betrays,
Accursed of all mankind shall end his vile days!
For of all the world’s lands, there is no land like thee--
Our Beautiful Union! the Land of the Free!
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The Star-Gemmed Flag.
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Our fathers cleft the ocean wave,
The birthright of the free to save;
And when they hail’d these western shores,
They claim’d them as their own and ours.
And when a Prince of foreign lands
His warriors poured upon our strands,
They spurned the lordlings from their fields,
And o’er their homes still held their shields.
Then wave the Flag, our Fathers’ Flag,
In memories of their bravery;
Then shout the Flag, our Fathers’ Flag,
The Star-gemmed Flag of brave hearts and the free.