Lift Every Voice and Sing

Lift every voice and sing
 Till earth and heaven ring
 Ring with the harmonies of Liberty
 Let our rejoicing rise
 High as the listening skies
 Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
 Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
 Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us
 Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
 Let us march on till victory is won
 Stony the road we trod
 Bitter the chastening rod
 Felt in the days when hope unborn had died
 Yet with a steady beat
 Have not our weary feet
 Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
 We have come over a way that with tears has been watered
 We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
 Out from the gloomy past
 Till now we stand at last
 Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast
 God of our weary years
 God of our silent tears
 Thou who has brought us thus far on the way
 Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light
 Keep us forever in the path, we pray
 Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee
 Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee
 Shadowed beneath Thy hand
 May we forever stand
 True to our God
 True to our native land
 Our native land