Hail, all hail, the flag above us. In its blue more bright Shine the stars to guide our way than in the dome of night; Higher aims the hope that sees them, for their spotless white Symbols the pure light of freedom. CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc. Hail, all hail, the flag above us. Nature never knew, In the dawn’s red ladder-bars where daylight climbs to view, Stripes that brought as fair a day as these anon shall do, When all the world turns to freedom. CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah! etc. EXPANSION. Not mountain chains, nor streams that cleave the plains, Nor the wide ocean that around them rolls Can bound the realm of Freedom’s loyal souls Who serve the Spirit that above it reigns. Not the mean few who snatch for selfish gains Through pathways opening toward the noblest goals Can shake Heaven’s children’s faith that Heaven controls That life the most which Earth the least enchains. O ye who see but lust for wealth or rule Where love would end one more wrong’d people’s thrall, As your sires ended yours, how blind are ye! Who says there is no God is no more fool Than he who hears not God’s voice in each call To loose man’s bonds and let the oppress’d go free. A PRAYER FOR PEACE AND GOOD WILL. Creative Spirit, Source of Life, And Father whom we trust, Keep us and keep our state from strife Through deeds to all men just. Teach us that each, though poor or base, Is yet a child of Thine, And born, whate’er his rank or race, Or wheresoe’er his dwelling-place, To destiny divine. Let not one nation’s pride of might On other nations prey With brute-like hosts that boast a right To plunder and to slay. If one land’s war-lord claim his own To be Thy Spirit’s call, Teach men that no God so made known, No God of but one land alone, Was ever God of all. Grant all, oh Lord, through lives of love, A glory to attain As far as heaven’s could be above What earthly battles gain. Grant all, wherever patriots view Their country’s flag unfurled, The right to think that service due God’s country calls for patriots too Whose country is the world. END _PUBLICATIONS OF G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS_ THE AZTEC GOD, AND OTHER DRAMAS BY GEORGE L. RAYMOND 16MO, CLOTH EXTRA, $1.25