Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

William McCarty, comp. The American National Song Book. 1842.

The Land of Love and Liberty

HAIL, great republic of the world!

The rising empire of the west;

When famed Columbus’ mighty mind impress’d,

Gave Europe’s sons a place of rest.

Be thou forever, forever blest and free,

The land of love and liberty.

Beneath thy spreading, mantling vines,

Beside thy flowery groves and springs;

And on thy lofty, thy lofty mountains’ brow,

May all thy sons and fair ones sing,
Be thou forever, &c.

From thee may future nations learn

To prize the cause thy sons began;

From thee may future, may future tyrants know,

That sacred are the rights of man.
Be thou forever, &c.

Of thee may sleeping infancy,

The pleasing, wondrous story tell;

And patriot sages, in venerable mood,

Instruct the world to govern well.
Be thou forever, &c.

May guardian angels watch around,

From harm protect these new-born states,

And all ye friendly, ye friendly nations, join,

And thus salute the child of fate:
Be thou forever, &c.