POEMS OF AMERICAN HISTORY
AMERICA
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain-side
Let freedom ring.
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake,
Let rocks their silence break,—
The sound prolong.
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King.
POEMS OFAMERICAN HISTORY
COLLECTED AND EDITED
BY
BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
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All rights on poems in this volume are reserved by the holders of the copyright. The publishers andothers named in the following list are the proprietors, either in their own right or as agents for theauthors, of the poems of which the authorship and titles are given, and of which the ownership is thusspecifically noted and is hereby acknowledged.
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., New York.—William Cullen Bryant: "The Green Mountain Boys,""Seventy-Six," "Song of Marion's Men," "Oh Mother of a Mighty Race," "Our Country's Call," "AbrahamLincoln," "Centennial Hymn."
Messrs. Richard D. Badger & Co., Boston.—Edwin Arlington Robinson: "The Klondike."
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis.—Charles Edward Russell: "The Fleet at Santiago,"from "Such Stuff as Dreams."
The Century Company, New York.—Richard Watson Gilder: "At the President's Grave," "Charleston,""The White City,