Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SONG OF OUR NATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Crowding the eastern gates
Last Line: Ever increase.
Subject(s): United States; America


Crowding the eastern gates,
Crowding the western gates,
To these United States
From all the earth,
Here may they ever find
Welcome and solace kind,
Freedom of heart and mind,
Fortune and worth.

Here may we be as one,
Here may the right be done,
Here let our purpose run
True evermore;
Here in fair brotherhood
Seeking the common good,
Stand as our fathers stood,
Bear as they bore.

God of our liberty,
Keep us securely free,
Grant us on land and sea
Blessings of peace;
But for the stricken right
May we be firm to fight,
And may our honest might
Ever increase.





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