LIFE EVERY VOICE AND SING we James oy Weldon —_ Jonnson a. LIFT EVERY VOICE AND°SING TILL EARTH AND HEAVEN RING RING WITH THE HARMONIES OF LIBERTY: LET OUR ‘REJOICING RIESE HIGH AS THE LISTENING SKIES, LeT IT RESOUND LOUD AS THE ROLLING SEA SING A SONG FU od OF THE FAITH THAT: THE DARK PAST HAS TAUGHT” US. SING..£e SONG FU Lk: OF THE HOPE THAT THE PRESENT HAS BROUGHT US: FACING THE RISING SUN OF OUR NEW DAY BEGUN LET US MARCH ON TILL VICTORY Is WON STONY: THE RG SWE TROD, BITTER THE CHASTENING ROD, FELT ‘IN THE DAYS WHEN HOPE UNBORN HAD DIED: VET WITH A STESDY BEAT, HAVE NOT OUR WEARY FEET COME TO THE PLACE FOR WHICH OUR FATHERS SIGHED. WE HAVE CONE CVER A WAY THAT 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 1S CAST. 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. © TBE ed oe SHADOWED BENEATH THY HAND,-MA y WE FOREVER STAND, TRUE TO OUR GOD, TRUE TO our NATIVE LAND. |