FREEDOM IN AMERICA

WHERE is thy home, O Freedom? Have they set

Thine image up upon a rock to greet

All comers, shaking from their wandering feet

The dust of old world bondage, to forget

The tyrannies of fraud and force, nor fret,

Where men are equal, slavish chain unmeet,

Nor bitter bread of discontent to eat,

Here, where all races of the earth are met?

America, beneath thy banded flag