Classic Poem

Uplift the song of praise
To him, our fathers' God!
Who led them o'er the watery ways
To lands untrod:
Seed of a race to be,
Upon his New-World shore;
The home of Law and Liberty
For evermore.

Lift high the song of praise,
O Nation grown in power!
Hold fast through good and evil days
Thy glorious dower:
The age-long hope fulfil,
New-quickened at thy birth;
Thy strength thy God, whose righteous will
Rules heaven and earth.

Uplift the song of praise!
His love and wisdom own,
Who leadeth still in unseen way,
By paths unknown.
His purposes of old
And promises endure,
And through the circling years unfold,
Forever sure.

Lift high the song of praise
And bless his holy Name!
Whose care above the passing days
Abides the same:
Our fathers' confidence
Through all their pilgrimage;
Our dwelling-place and our defence
From age to age.