Lift Every Voice and Sing

Lift ev­ery voice and sing

Till earth and Heav­en ring

Ring with the har­mo­nies 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 is won.

Stony the road we trod

Bitter the chast­en­ing rod

Felt in the days when hope un­born had died;

Yet with a stea­dy beat

Have not our wea­ry feet

Come to the place for which our fa­thers sighed?

We have come ov­er 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 is 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 the 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.