Lift Every Voice And Sing

 

Lift Every Voice and sing till earth and heaven ring

Ring with the harmonies of liberty

Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies

Let it resound loud as the rolling sea

 

Sing a song, full of the faith that the dark past has taught us

Sing a song, full of the hope that the present has brought us

Facing the rising sum of our new day begun

Let us march on till victory is won

 

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod

felt in the days when hope unborn had died

yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet

come to the place for which our fathers sighed?

 

We have come, over a way that which tears has been watered

We have come, treading out path through the blood of the slaughtered

Out of the gloomy past, till now we stand at last,

Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast

 

GOD of our weary years, GOD of our silent tears

Thou Who has brought us thus far on the way

Thou Who hast by Thy might, led us into the light

Keep us for-e-ver in the path we pray

 

Lest our feet, stray from the places our GOD where me met thee

Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world we forget Thee

Shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand

TRUE TO OUR GOD, TRUE TO OUR NATIVE LAND