Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OUR COUNTRY, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER


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First Line: O beautiful, my country!'
Last Line: Be peace the crowning gem.
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


"O BEAUTIFUL, my country!"
Be thine a nobler care,
Than all thy wealth of commerce,
Thy harvest waving fair;
Be it thy pride to lift up
The manhood of the poor;
Be thou to the oppresséd
Fair Freedom's open door.

For thee our fathers suffered;
For thee they toiled and prayed;
Upon thy holy altar
Their willing lives they laid.
Thou hast no common birthright;
Grand memories on thee shine,
The blood of pilgrim nations,
Commingled, flows in thine.

O beautiful, our country!
Round thee in love we draw;
Thine is the grace of freedom,
The majesty of law.
Be righteousness thy scepter,
Justice thy diadem;
And on thy shining forehead
Be peace the crowning gem.





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