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The Winged Beetle
The Winged Beetle (1910), PDF p. 161
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151
AN HYMN
FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
(Independence Day)
Brothers and sisters, on this day
Of deathless glory, let us come
United in our glad array
To hymn our fathers martyrdom.
Ashes to ashes ? Dust to dust ?
So let it be ! In God we trust.
They diedthey diedand we are free.
Take up their cross ! Deserve their crown !
The stainless flag of liberty
By man shall not be trodden down !
Ashes to ashes ? Dust to dust ?
So let it be ! In God we trust.
In war and earthquake, wreck and wrong,
Still let the flag of freedom fly !
In peace and safety, still be strong !
For we will live as we would die.
Ashes to ashes ? Dust to dust ?
So let it be ! In God we trust.
Though ruin wash the world in blood,
Though death devour, though time decay,
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