A light! A light! A light! A light!

It grew—a starlit flag unfurled,

It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn.

He gained a world; he gave that world

Its grandest lesson: ‘On and On.’”

That light became the light of Freedom. That light is still upheld clear and pure by Columbia. In that light she will press “on and on” till tyranny be banished from the earth.

FRANCE:

Aye, she will come, if but to pay back the debt of gratitude she owes us for our aid when she won her Independence.

BELGIUM:

She must come, for we need her aid.