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This Ode was sung in the
Town Hall,
Concord, Massachusetts
July 4, 1857
Written by Our American Poet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
These are the original lyrics
.. the melody is not known.
O TENDERLY the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with
fire;
One morn is in the mighty
heaven,
And one in our desire.
The cannon booms from town
to town,
Our pulses beat not less,
The joy-bells chime their
tidings down,
Which children's voices
bless.
For He that flung the broad
blue fold
O'er-mantling land and sea,
One third part of the sky
unrolled
For the banner of the free.
The men are ripe of Saxon
kind
To build an equal state,
To take the statute from
the mind
And make of duty fate.
United States! the ages
plead,
Present and Past in under-song,
Go put your creed into your
deed,
Nor speak with double tongue.
For sea and land don't understand
Nor skies without a frown
See rights for which the
one hand fights
By the other cloven down.
Be just at home; then write
your scroll
Of honor o'er the sea,
And bid the broad Atlantic
roll
A ferry of the free.
And henceforth there shall
be no chain,
Save underneath the sea
The wires shall murmur through
the main
Sweet songs of liberty.
The conscious stars accord
above,
The waters wild below,
And under, through the cable
wove,
Her fiery errands go.
For He that worketh high
and wise,
Nor pauses in his plan,
Will take the sun out of
the skies
Ere freedom out of man.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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