Sung, to music composed by the author, at the anniversary of the battle
of Concord, at Concord, Mass., 1898.
This land of ours, we love it.
’Tis Freedom’s own, where reign
No tyrants throned above it
O’er serfs that wear their chain;
Where birth and wealth to worth give way,
And none in camp or court have sway,
Except as all ordain.