If placing her first in our prayers and our song

Is false to true reason, we're glad to be wrong.

If it's wrong to wish victory day after day

For the troops of Our Country now marching away;

If it's wrong to believe they are moved by the right

And not by the love and the lure of the fight;

If to cheer them to battle and bid them be strong

Is false to right thinking, then let us be wrong.

If it's wrong to believe in America's dreams

Of a freedom on earth that's as real as it seems;