James Weldon Johnson - Lift Every Voice And Sing Lyrics
Lift every voice and singTill earth andHeaven ringRing with the harmonies ofLiberty;Let our rejoicing rise,High asThe list'ning skies, let it resound loud as theRolling seaSing a song full of faith that theDark past has tought us,Sing a song full ofThe hope that the present has broughtUs;Facing the rising sun of our new dayBegun,Let us march on till victory isWon.Stony the road we trod,Bitter theChast'ning rod,Felt in the day that hopeUnborn had died;Yet with a steadyBeat,Have not our weary feet,Come to thePlace on which our fathers sighed?We haveCome over a way that with tears has beenWatered,We have come, treading our pathThrough the blood of the slaughtered,Out fromThe gloomy past, till now we stand atLastWhere the white gleam of our star isCast.God of our weary years,God ofOur silent tears,Thou who has brought us thusFar on the way;Thou who has by thyMight,Led us into the light,Keep usForever in the path, we prayLest our feetStray from the places, our God, where we metThee,Least our hearts, drunk with the wine ofThe world, we forget thee,Shadowed beneath theHand,May we forever stand,Tru to ourGod,Tru to our native land
