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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472624" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Canaan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A PURITAN WAR SONG</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHERE are you going, soldiers,<br>With banner, gun, and sword?<br>We 're marching South to Canaan<br>To battle for the Lord<br>What Captain leads your armies<br>Along the rebel coasts?<br>The Mighty One of Israel,<br>His name is Lord of Hosts!<br>To Canaan, to Canaan<br>The Lord has led us forth,<br>To blow before the heathen walls<br>The trumpets of the North!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What flag is this you carry<br>Along the sea and shore?<br>The same our grandsires lifted up,--<br>The same our fathers bore<br>In many a battle's tempest<br>It shed the crimson rain,--<br>What God has woven in his loom<br>Let no man rend in twain!<br>To Canaan, to Canaan<br>The Lord has led us forth,<br>To plant upon the rebel towers<br>The banners of the North!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What troop is this that follows,<br>All armed with picks and spades?<br>These are the swarthy bondsmen,--<br>The iron-skin brigades!<br>They'll pile up Freedom's breastwork,<br>They 'LL scoop out rebels' graves;<br>Who then will be their owner<br>And march them off for slaves?<br>To Canaan, to Canaan<br>The Lord has led us forth,<br>To strike upon the captive's chain<br>The hammers of the North!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What song is this you're singing?<br>The same that Israel sung<br>When Moses led the mighty choir,<br>And Miriam's timbrel rung!<br>To Canaan! To Canaan!<br>The priests and maidens cried:<br>To Canaan! To Canaan!<br>The people's voice replied.<br>To Canaan, to Canaan<br>The Lord has led us forth,<br>To thunder through its adder dens<br>The anthems of the North.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Canaan's hosts are scattered,<br>And all her walls lie flat,<br>What follows next in order?<br>The Lord will see to that<br>We'll break the tyrant's sceptre,--<br>We 'll build the people's throne,--<br>When half the world is Freedom's,<br>Then all the world's our own<br>To Canaan, to Canaan<br>The Lord has led us forth,<br>To sweep the rebel threshing-floors,<br>A whirlwind from the North.</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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WHERE are you going, soldiers,
With banner, gun, and sword?
We 're marching South to Canaan
To battle for the Lord
What Captain leads your armies
Along the rebel coasts?
The Mighty One of Israel,
His name is Lord of Hosts!
To C..."></div>
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