PATRIOTIC SONGS. 139. MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE. Land, where my fathers died! My native country! thee- I love thy rocks and rills, Let music swell the breeze, Let mortal tongue awake; Our fathers' God! to Thee, To Thee we sing: With freedom's holy light; 140. OUR NATIVE LAND. God bless our native land! For her our prayer shall rise On Him we wait: To Thee aloud we cry, God save the State! 141. OUR SOLDIERS' GRAVES. Strew all their graves with flow'rs, Bring flowers to deck each sod, Where rests their sacred dust; Though gone from earth, they live to God, Their everlasting trust! Fearless, in freedom's cause, They suffered, toiled and bled; And died, obedient to her laws, By truth and conscience led, Oft as the year returns, She o'er their graves shall weep, And wreath with flowers their funeral urns Their memory dear to keep. Bring flowers of early spring And summer's fragrant roses bring They died our land to save. 142. OUR COUNTRY. O beautiful, my country! The manhood of the poor; Fair freedom's open door! For thee our fathers suffered, Their willing lives they laid. The blood of pilgrim nations O beautiful, our country! Round thee in love we draw, Be righteousness thy sceptre, And on thy shining forehead 143. F. L. H. GOD GIVES THE CONQUEST. Mere human energy shall faint They with unwearied step shall tread With growing ardor onwards move, 144. FLAG OF THE FREE. Nobly our flag flutters o'er us to-day, Emblem of peace, pledge of Liberty's sway, Its foes shall tremble and shrink in dismay, If e'er insulted it be. Our stars and stripes lov'd and honored by all, CHORUS: Here we will gather its cause to defend, Let patriots rally and wise counsels lend, It still shall be the flag of the free, Emblem of liberty. With it in beauty no flag can compare, Freedom and progress our watch-words today, When duty calls us, who dare disobey? Chorus. Ever united this fair land shall be, No North, no South, no New England, no West, One country always, the greatest, the best; Long may it wave; the poor and oppressed Bless thee, thou flag of the free. Chorus. |