Some ask a crystal ball
to tell the future.
On Ground Hog Day
people ask a fur ball
to tell it.
– eab, 2/3/09
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– eab, 2/3/09
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– eab, 2/2/07
Posted in poet American, today in history, uncategorized, tagged 11/16/1895, 2/2/1832, born 10/21/1808 at Boston, died in the same location, Massachusetts, penned “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”, Samuel Francis Smith, this date, twenty-three-year-old Baptist seminary student on February 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
My country,’ tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;
land where my fathers died,
land of the pilgrims’ pride,
from every mountainside let freedom ring!
My native country, thee,
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.
Let music swell the breeze,
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.
Our fathers’ God, to thee,
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
Samuel Francis Smith this date, 2/2/1832 penned, “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.” Smith was then a twenty-three-year-old Baptist seminary student. He was born 10/21/1808 at Boston, Massachusetts. He died in the same location, 11/16/1895.