Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OUR COUNTRY, by GEORGE LUNT


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First Line: Our country! Right or wrong,'
Last Line: Our country,—right or wrong!
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


'OUR country! right or wrong,'—
What manly heart can doubt
That thus should swell the patriot song,
Thus ring the patriot shout?
Be but the foe arrayed,
And war's wild trumpet blown,—
Cold were his heart, who has not made
His country's cause his own!

Though faction rule the halls,
Where nobler thoughts have swayed,
One sacred voice forever calls
The patriot's heart and blade;
He, at his country's name,
Feels every pulse beat high,
Wreathes round her glory all his fame
And loves for her to die!

Where'er her flag unrolled
Wooes the saluting breeze,
Flings o'er the plain its starry fold,
Or floats on stormy seas,—
All dearest things are there,
All that makes life divine,
Home, faith, the brave, the true, the fair,
Cling to the flaming sign.

Oh, is this thought a dream?
No,—by the gallant dead,
Who sleep by hill and plain and stream,
Or deep on ocean's bed!
By every sacred name,
By every glorious song,
By all we know and love of fame,—
OUR COUNTRY,—right or wrong!





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