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