| THE AMERICAN SPIRIT SPEAKS: TO the Judge of Right and Wrong |
| With Whom fulfillment lies |
| Our purpose and our power belong, |
| Our faith and sacrifice. |
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| Let Freedom’s land rejoice! |
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| Our ancient bonds are riven; |
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| Once more to us the eternal choice |
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| Of good or ill is given. |
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| Not at a little cost, |
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| Hardly by prayer or tears, |
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| Shall we recover the road we lost |
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| In the drugged and doubting years. |
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| But after the fires and the wrath, |
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| But after searching and pain, |
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| His Mercy opens us a path |
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| To live with ourselves again. |
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| In the Gates of Death rejoice! |
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| We see and hold the good— |
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| Bear witness, Earth, we have made our choice |
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| For Freedom’s brotherhood. |
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| Then praise the Lord Most High |
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| Whose Strength hath saved us whole, |
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| Who bade us choose that the Flesh should die |
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| And not the living Soul!
-Rudyard Kipling
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