Sweet Flag of Liberty
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By Vaughan Glaser. The United States of America May your flag forever wave And may it always symbolize "The home of free and brave" I ponder at your "colors" The stars, like gleaming light Mingled with the red and blue And streaming stripes of white These white stripes of your standard Ideals, both pure and true The distant hopes you brought to earth The stars, on field of blue And then, for the sore travail The blood so many shed In the "cause" of liberty And so, the stripes of red Yet, the only fitting monument To this sad and bloody cost Our dedication to the "cause" For which these lives were lost Once more your gallant "colors" Soar high against the foe Above the sands of Baghdad And the fields of Kosovo Your thirteen stars are fifty now "Sweet flag of liberty" To forty-eight, add Arctic state And Islands of the sea But this nation can't be measured In dimensions of the earth Nor landscape state its beauty Nor gold define its worth 'Tis the heart of your people 'Tis an essence that's defined 'Tis a liberty made tangible In the freedom of the mind So, when your waving flag Should pass in proud display Let this nation chant in unison I love the U.S.A. |
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