WE HONOR OUR GRAND OLD HEROES.
BY ANNIE WITTENMYER.
We honor our grand old heroes
Who stood in the thick of the fight,
Where deadly missiles were flying,
And valiantly fought for the right.
They stood with God in the conflict,
They fought on God’s side in the fray;
The Lord and his angels helped them,
And Freedom and Right won the day.
Sacred to Freedom forever
Is the soil where they fought and bled;
No bondsman shall wear a shackle,
No tyrant shall lift up his head.
Above the flags of all nations
Our beautiful banner floats high;
Its stars like the stars of heaven,
And its blue as blue as the sky.
Long may it wave in its beauty,
The symbol of Freedom and Right;
Not a star be lost from its azure,
Not a blot stain its spotless white!