THE SOUL OF AMERICA[11]
O America! Land of forests and prairies.
Land of races and peoples,
Land of freedom and tolerance,
Looked-for haven of the nations of the world!
To you I came, and you I adopted.
I have infolded you as a child infolds its mother.
I say to you: “My mother!”
I love you because you hold the torch of liberty in your outstretched hand.