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A SONG FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY, by                    
First Line: Arise and shout, ye native sons!
Last Line: Shall roll from sea to sea!
Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Patriotism; American Flag; Independence Day


Arise and shout, ye native sons!
And sing, ye daughters fair!
Your natal sun ascends the East
And rides in glory there.
And in the sky methinks I see
A gay mirage of light
Reflected from a million flags
With stars emblazoned bright.

And let the eagle scream her joy
Who, through the fateful years
When war baptized the land with blood
And washed it with its tears,
Still bore aloft the banner bright,
While thunder clouds were riven,
Until it caught the falling stars
From heaven in tribute given.

And shout! Ye millions foreign-born,
Who sought this western world
To pluck fair Freedom's rarest flowers
And keep her flag unfurled.
And let the echoes roll and roll,
In a ravishing refrain,
From sweet magnolias of the South
To princely pines of Maine.

Let Yukon's golden trumpet sound,
And bells of freedom ring
From every isle that nestles now
Beneath the eagle's wing.
Let cascades leap, and geysers play,
And oceans roar their glee,
Till a tidal wave of liberty
Shall roll from sea to sea!





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