1
0

Black National Anthem


 invite response                
2020 Jul 9, 7:36am   700 views  3 comments

by Onvacation   ➕follow (3)   💰tip   ignore  

Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Black National Anthem

Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory won.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet,
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered;
Out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our star is cast.


God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might, led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee.
Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand,
True to our God, true to our native land

Comments 1 - 3 of 3        Search these comments

1   Onvacation   2020 Jul 9, 7:38am  

Hard to believe that the BLM, godless, US hating, communists' really want to sing this.
2   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Jul 9, 9:19am  

Will they alternate anthems for each ethnic group? Serbians are more of a minority in the US than blacks, for example.

God of Justice; Thou who saved us
when in deepest bondage cast,
Hear Thy Serbian children’s voices,
Be our help as in the past.
With Thy mighty hand sustain us,
Still our rugged pathway trace;
God, our hope; protect and cherish
Serbian crown and Serbian race!

Bind in closest links our kindred
Teach the love that will not fail,
May the loathed fiend of discord
Never in our ranks prevail.
Let the golden fruits of union
Our young tree of freedom grace;
God, our Master! guide and prosper
Serbian crown and Serbian race.

Lord! Avert from us Thy vengeance,
Thunder of Thy dreaded ire;
Bless each Serbian town and hamlet,
Mountain, meadow, heart and spire.
When our host goes forth to battle
Death or victory to embrace-
God of armies! be our leader
Strengthen then the Serbian race.

On our sepulchre of ages
Breaks the resurrection morn,
From the slough of direst slavery
Serbia anew is born.
Through five hundred years of durance
We have knelt before Thy face,
All our kin, O God! deliver,
Thus entreats the Serbian race.
3   Kepi   2020 Jul 9, 9:43am  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says
Will they alternate anthems for each ethnic group?


Uh oh. This could turn into the same sort of quagmire as the L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ problem or the never ending number of genders being discovered.

Please register to comment:

api   best comments   contact   latest images   memes   one year ago   random   suggestions