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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472435" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hail, Columbia!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE FIRST VERSE OF THE SONG<br>BY JOSEPH HOPKINSON</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'HAIL, Columbia! Happy land!<br>Hail, ye heroes, heaven-born band,<br>Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,<br>Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,<br>And when the storm of war was gone<br>Enjoy'd the peace your valor won.<br>Let independence be our boast,<br>Ever mindful what it cost;<br>Ever grateful for the prize,<br>Let its altar reach the skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Firm--united--let us be,<br>Rallying round our Liberty;<br>As a band of brothers join'd,<br>Peace and safety we shall find.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>ADDITIONAL VERSES</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE<br>CONSTITUTIONAL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT PHILADELPHIA,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1887</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LOOK our ransomed shores around,<br>Peace and safety we have found!<br>Welcome, friends who once were foes!<br>Welcome, friends who once were foes,<br>To all the conquering years have gained,--<br>A nation's rights, a race unchained!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Children of the day new-born,<br>Mindful of its glorious morn,<br>Let the pledge our fathers signed<br>Heart to heart forever bind!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the stars of heaven shall burn,<br>While the ocean tides return,<br>Ever may the circling sun<br>Find the Many still are One!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Graven deep with edge of steel,<br>Crowned with Victory's crimson seal,<br>All the world their names shall read!<br>All the world their names shall read,<br>Enrolled with his, the Chief that led<br>The hosts whose blood for us was shed.<br>Pay our sires their children's debt,<br>Love and honor, nor forget<br>Only Union's golden key<br>Guards the Ark of Liberty!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the stars of heaven shall burn,<br>While the ocean tides return,<br>Ever may the circling sun<br>Find the Many still are One!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hail, Columbia! strong and free,<br>Throned in hearts from sea to sea<br>Thy march triumphant still pursue!<br>Thy march triumphant still pursue<br>With peaceful stride from zone to zone,<br>Till Freedom finds the world her own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blest in Union's holy ties,<br>Let our grateful song arise,<br>Every voice its tribute lend,<br>All in loving chorus blend!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the stars in heaven shall burn,<br>While the ocean tides return,<br>Ever shall the circling sun<br>Find the Many still are One!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a><div class=q>
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'HAIL, Columbia! Happy land!
Hail, ye heroes, heaven-born band,
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,
And when the storm of war was gone
Enjoy'd the peace y..."></div>
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