Monday, July 05, 2021

Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon, and J. Rosamond Johnson

 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 has brought us thus far on the way
Thou who has 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
Our native land

1 comment:

Aaron said...

I used to sing in the elementary school choir. We used to have to come to school early to practice. I remember once sohana Kareem was singing in the front row and she just face planted in the hard concrete floor. The choir teacher told us it was because she was standing and locking her knees. So from then I always tried to bend my knees a little. But I never could really do it. But I never fainted. Probably because my choir teacher was full of shit.