A National Song.All hail! Unfurl the stripes and stars!The banner of the free!Ten times ten thousand patriots greetThe shrine of Liberty;Come, with one heart, one hope, one aim,An undivided band,To elevate, with solemn rites,The ruler of our land.Not to invest a potentate,With robes of majesty—Not to confer a kingly crown,Nor bend a supple knee.We now beneath no scepter’d sway—Obey no royal nod—Columbia’s sons, erect and free,Kneel only to their God!Our ruler boasts no titled rank,No ancient, princely line—No legal right to sovereignty,Ancestral and divine.A patriot—at his country’s callResponding to her voiceOne of the people—he becomesA sovereign by our choice.And now, before the mighty pileWe’ve rear’d to Liberty,He swears to cherish and defendThe charter of the free!God of our country! seal his oathWith thy supreme assent.God save the Union of the States!God save the President!
All hail! Unfurl the stripes and stars!The banner of the free!Ten times ten thousand patriots greetThe shrine of Liberty;Come, with one heart, one hope, one aim,An undivided band,To elevate, with solemn rites,The ruler of our land.Not to invest a potentate,With robes of majesty—Not to confer a kingly crown,Nor bend a supple knee.We now beneath no scepter’d sway—Obey no royal nod—Columbia’s sons, erect and free,Kneel only to their God!Our ruler boasts no titled rank,No ancient, princely line—No legal right to sovereignty,Ancestral and divine.A patriot—at his country’s callResponding to her voiceOne of the people—he becomesA sovereign by our choice.And now, before the mighty pileWe’ve rear’d to Liberty,He swears to cherish and defendThe charter of the free!God of our country! seal his oathWith thy supreme assent.God save the Union of the States!God save the President!
All hail! Unfurl the stripes and stars!The banner of the free!Ten times ten thousand patriots greetThe shrine of Liberty;Come, with one heart, one hope, one aim,An undivided band,To elevate, with solemn rites,The ruler of our land.Not to invest a potentate,With robes of majesty—Not to confer a kingly crown,Nor bend a supple knee.We now beneath no scepter’d sway—Obey no royal nod—Columbia’s sons, erect and free,Kneel only to their God!Our ruler boasts no titled rank,No ancient, princely line—No legal right to sovereignty,Ancestral and divine.A patriot—at his country’s callResponding to her voiceOne of the people—he becomesA sovereign by our choice.And now, before the mighty pileWe’ve rear’d to Liberty,He swears to cherish and defendThe charter of the free!God of our country! seal his oathWith thy supreme assent.God save the Union of the States!God save the President!
All hail! Unfurl the stripes and stars!The banner of the free!Ten times ten thousand patriots greetThe shrine of Liberty;Come, with one heart, one hope, one aim,An undivided band,To elevate, with solemn rites,The ruler of our land.
All hail! Unfurl the stripes and stars!
The banner of the free!
Ten times ten thousand patriots greet
The shrine of Liberty;
Come, with one heart, one hope, one aim,
An undivided band,
To elevate, with solemn rites,
The ruler of our land.
Not to invest a potentate,With robes of majesty—Not to confer a kingly crown,Nor bend a supple knee.We now beneath no scepter’d sway—Obey no royal nod—Columbia’s sons, erect and free,Kneel only to their God!
Not to invest a potentate,
With robes of majesty—
Not to confer a kingly crown,
Nor bend a supple knee.
We now beneath no scepter’d sway—
Obey no royal nod—
Columbia’s sons, erect and free,
Kneel only to their God!
Our ruler boasts no titled rank,No ancient, princely line—No legal right to sovereignty,Ancestral and divine.A patriot—at his country’s callResponding to her voiceOne of the people—he becomesA sovereign by our choice.
Our ruler boasts no titled rank,
No ancient, princely line—
No legal right to sovereignty,
Ancestral and divine.
A patriot—at his country’s call
Responding to her voice
One of the people—he becomes
A sovereign by our choice.
And now, before the mighty pileWe’ve rear’d to Liberty,He swears to cherish and defendThe charter of the free!God of our country! seal his oathWith thy supreme assent.God save the Union of the States!God save the President!
And now, before the mighty pile
We’ve rear’d to Liberty,
He swears to cherish and defend
The charter of the free!
God of our country! seal his oath
With thy supreme assent.
God save the Union of the States!
God save the President!