<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420468" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Centennial Hymn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>Our fathers' God! from out whose hand<br>The centuries fall like grains of sand,<br>We meet to-day, united, free,<br>And loyal to our land and Thee,<br>To thank Thee for the era done,<br>And trust Thee for the opening one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>Here, where of old, by Thy design,<br>The fathers spake that word of Thine<br>Whose echo is the glad refrain<br>Of rended bolt and falling chain,<br>To grace our festal time, from all<br>The zones of earth our guests we call.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>Be with us while the New World greets<br>The Old World thronging all its streets,<br>Unveiling all the triumphs won<br>By art or toil beneath the sun;<br>And unto common good ordain<br>This rivalship of hand and brain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.<br>Thou, who hast here in concord furled<br>The war flags of a gathered world,<br>Beneath our Western skies fulfil<br>The Orient's mission of good-will,<br>And, freighted with love's Golden Fleece,<br>Send back its Argonauts of peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V.<br>For art and labor met in truce,<br>For beauty made the bride of use,<br>We thank Thee; but, withal, we crave<br>The austere virtues strong to save,<br>The honor proof to place or gold,<br>The manhood never bought nor sold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI.<br>Oh make Thou us, through centuries long,<br>In peace secure, in justice strong;<br>Around our gift of freedom draw<br>The safeguards of Thy righteous law<br>And, cast in some diviner mould,<br>Let the new cycle shame the old!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Greenleaf+Whittier">John Greenleaf Whittier</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420468" data-title="Centennial Hymn de John Greenleaf Whittier" data-description="I. Our fathers' God! from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand, We meet to-day, united, free, And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era done, And trust Thee for the opening one. II. Here, where of old, by Thy desi..."></div> </div> </div>

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