Classic Poem

My Country, right!
True to the laws of God and man,
Loyal to justice, fair to life,
Spurning the bigot's spiteful ban,
Holding the world in love's wide span,
Foe of fraternal strife.

My Country, wrong?
God grant that love may spare that fate;
But, if she errs, God make us wise,
Humbly her faults to contemplate;
Thus may our meekness make her great,
Worthy in Freedom's eyes.

——My Country, right!
True to the laws of God and man,
Loyal to justice, fair to life,
Spurning the bigot's spiteful ban,
Holding the world in love's wide span,
Foe of fraternal strife.

——My Country, wrong?
God grant that love may spare that fate;
But, if she errs, God make us wise,
Humbly her faults to contemplate;
Thus may our meekness make her great,
Worthy in Freedom's eyes.