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The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest – tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
The PLEDGE of ALLEGIANCE
In 1890 James Upham, a man who lived in Boston, felt people were not respectful of the flag. He asked schoolchildren all over our country to earn money to buy a flag to fly over their school. The children worked hard at their task. Within a year 30,000 schools in America had “Old Glory” on display!
When the USA announced that they would observed the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, Mr. Upham felt the Americans should have a special pledge to their nation and flag honoring the occasion. He hoped it would last longer than just the day of the celebration.
He went to his friend Francis Bellamy and asked him to help write a pledge. After working for a long time the two men completed the pledge in August of 1892. They waited until Columbus Day of that year to recite it in public. Everyone liked it!
Fifty years later, in 1942, when America was at war, it was adopted by Congress as the official pledge. At that time they also adopted the proper courtesy toward the flag; standing respectfully with the right hand over the heart while repeating the pledge:
“I pledge alligiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
The pledge means: “I promise to be true to the Flag of my country and the great nation for which it stands; one country under the protection of God, free and strong, with freedom and fairness for all.”
AMERICAN PATRIOTIC SONGS
America the Beautiful
By Katherine Lee Bates (1893)
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes prov’d
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country lov’d
And mercy more than life.
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And ev’ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his light on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
America
The lyrics for “America” (or “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”) were written by Reverend Samuel F. Smith (1808 – 1895) to the music of the English national anthem. Smith wrote the lyrics in Amherst, Massachusetts, in February 1832, and the song was first sung at a patriotic celebration on July 4th, 1832, at the Park Street Church in Boston.
My country ‘tis on thee Let music swell the breeze
Sweet land of liberty; And ring from all the trees
Of thee I sing. Sweet freedom song
Land where my fathers died Let all that breathe partake
Land of the pilgrims’ pride Let mortal tongues awake
From every mountain side Let rocks their silence break
Let freedom ring. The sound prolong.
My native country – thee Our fathers’ God, to thee
Land of the noble free Author of liberty
Thy name I love; To thee we sing
I love thy rocks and rills Long may our land be bright
Thy woods and templed hills With freedom’s holy light
My heart with rapture thrills Protects us by thy might
Like that above. Great God, our King.
The United States
by Susan H. Nipp
The United States, the United States,
I love my country, the United States.
There’s Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas,
California, Colorado, Connecticut and Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii and Idaho,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North ’n’ South Carolina,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Oklahom’,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia,
West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
The United States, the United States,
I love my country, the United States.
God Bless America
by Irving Berlin
God bless America, To the oceans,
Land that I love. White with foam.
Stand beside her God bless America,
And guide her My home sweet home.
Through the night God bless America,
With a light from above. My home sweet home!
From the mountains,
To the prairies,
Home on the Range
Traitional
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antilope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antilope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light from the glittering stars,
Have i stood there amazed and asked as i gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours.
Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antilope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
TASKS
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