RED, white, blue, the flag that leads us on, <br />Stripes as red as blood well shed by many a hero gone. <br />Now 'tis ours to storm the towers of tyranny and wrong, <br />Freedom's sons who front the guns with Freedom's battle-song. <br />Fly the flag from dome and steeple, <br />Fly the flag from home and school, <br />Flag of Freedom's birth, <br />While we battle that the rule <br />Of the people <br />By the people <br />For the people <br />Shall prevail o'er all the earth. <br />Red, white, blue, the flag that leads us on, <br />White as peace for whose release our fighting gear we don; <br />Peace enchained, crushed, profaned, shall yet in beauty stand, <br />Yet shall bless with fruitfulness her desolated land. <br />Fly the flag from dome and steeple, <br />Fly the flag from home and school, <br />Flag of Freedom's birth <br />While we battle that the rule <br />Of the people <br />By the people <br />For the people <br />Shall prevail o'er all the earth. <br />Red, white, blue, the flag that leads us on, <br />Blue as skies whose starry eyes shall see our victory won. <br />Freedom's sons and champions, to her our hearts are true, <br />We who fight for Human Right, and the Red, <br />White, Blue. <br />Fly the flag from dome and steeple, <br />Fly, the flag from home and school, <br />Flag of Freedom's birth, <br />While we battle that the rule <br />Of the people <br />By the people <br />For the people <br />Shall prevail o'er all the earth.<br /><br />Katharine Lee Bates<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/freedom-s-battle-song/
