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 OUR COUNTRY AND HER FLAG. 
 
 FRANCIS LIBBER 
 
 Written i\ 18(il, after the Raising of the Fr..<\<; on Columbia 
 College, New York. 
 
 jJrintcb by the Stoibntts. 
 
 Tone — Gaude-amm igitur ; or, Ein freie* Leben fithrm v. 
 1. 
 We do not hate our enemy — 
 
 May Cod deal gently with us all. 
 We love our Land ; we fight her foe ; 
 
 We hate his cause, and that must fall. 
 
 Our country is a goodly land ; 
 
 We'll keep her alway whole and hale 
 We'll love her, live for her or die ; 
 
 To fall for her is not, to fail. 
 
 Our Flag! The Red shall mean the blood 
 We gladly pledge ; and let the White 
 
 Mean purity and solemn truth, 
 
 Unsullied justice, sacred right. 
 
 Its Blue, the sea we love to plow, 
 
 That laves the heaven-united land, 
 
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 Between the Old and Older World, 
 
 From strand, o'er mount and stream, to strand. 
 
 The Bine reflects the crowding stars, 
 Bright union-emblem of the free ; 
 
 Come, all of ye, and let it wave — 
 That floating piece of poetry. 
 
 H. 
 Our fathers came and planted fields, 
 
 And manly Law, and schools and truth 
 They planted Self-Rule, which we'll guard 
 
 By word and sword, in age and youth. 
 
 Broad freedom came along- with them 
 On History's ever-widening- wings. 
 
 Our blessing this, our task and toil ; 
 
 For "arduous are all noble things." 
 
 8. 
 Let never Emp'ror rule this land, 
 
 Nor fitful Crowd, nor senseless Pride. 
 Our Master is our self-made Law; 
 
 To him we bow, and none beside. 
 
 Then sing and shout for our free land. 
 For glorious FREELAND'S victory; 
 
 Pray that in turmoil and in peace 
 
 FREELAND our land may ever be; 
 
 10. 
 That faithful we be found and strong 
 
 When History builds as corals build. 
 Or when she rears her granite walls — 
 
 Her moles with crimson mortar filled. 
 
 Bakrr A Umliohi, I'r 
 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
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