"WHO MORE THAN SELF THEIR COUNTRY LOVED.."

"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."

   ......Katherine Lee Bates 

             (1859-1929)

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, TAIBAN, N. MEX., U.S.A.

"Breathes there a man with soul

     so dead,

Who never to himself hath said:

This is my own, my native land 

    Whose heart within him ne'er

hath burned when home his

  footsteps he hath turned,

From wandering on a foreign strand?

If such there breathe, go mark him well;

   For him no Minstrel raptures swell,

High tho' his titles, proud his name,

   Despite these titles, power, and pelf,

The wretch concentered all in self--

  Living shall forfeit fair renown,

And doubly dying, shall go down

  To the dust from which he spring,

Unwept, unhonored, and unsung."

     ......Sir Walter Scott

"Praise the Power that hath made

    and preserved us a nation..."

         .."The Star Spangled Banner"

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"Long may our land be bright 

  With freedom's Holy Light;

Protect us by Thy might,

  Great God our King."

  Amen

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Hymns on the FOURTH...

MIL

4 JULY 2020

Painting by Annalon