SSS RRRIRM RRR OBO RRB een RRM RBC R aR Annem uO RrmmmeRc me LIFT VERSE | EVERY VOICE AND SING +e RE RES 1 LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING, TILL EARTH AND HEAVEN RING, RING WITH THE HARMONTES 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 SUN OF OUR NEW DAY BEGUN, LET US MARCH ON TILL VICTORY TS WON. VERSE 2 STONY THE ROAD WE TROD, BITTER THE CHAST'NING ROD, FELT] IN THE DAYS WHEN HOPE UNBORN HAD DIED; YET WITH A STEAq BEAT, HAVE NOT OUR WEARY FEET, COME TO THE PLACE FOR | WHICH OUR FATHER'S SIGHED? WE HAVE COME OVER A WAY THA] WITH TEARS HAS BEEN WATERED, WE HAVE COME, TREADING OUR PATH THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE SLAUGHTERED, OUT FROM THE GLOOMY PAST, TILL NOW WE STAND AT LAST WHERE THE WHITE GLEAM OF OUR BRIGHT STAR IS CAST. VERSE 3 GOD OF OUR WEARY YEARS, GOD OF OUR SILENT TEARS, THOU WHO HAST BROUGHT US THUS FAR ON THE WAY; THOU WHO HAST BY THY MIGHT, LED US INTO THE LIGHT, KEEP US FOREVER IN THY PATH, WE PRAY. LEST OUR FEET STRAY FROM THE PLACES, OUR GOD, WHERE WE 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.