O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?

United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.