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 died—they died—and 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.