<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Our Country</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">After all --</p><p class="line">One country, brethren! We must rise or fall</p><p class="line">The makers of immortality --</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Her freedom, fame,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Her glory or her shame,</p><p class="line">Liegemen to God and fathers of the free!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">After all --</p><p class="line">Hark! from the heights the clear, strong clarion call</p><p class="line">And the command imperious: "Stand forth,</p><p class="line">Sons of the South and Brothers of the North!</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Stand forth and be</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">As one on soil and sea --</p><p class="line">Your country's honor more than empire's worth!"</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">After all --</p><p class="line">'Tis Freedom wears the loveliest coronal;</p><p class="line">Her brow is to the morning; in the sod</p><p class="line">She breathes the breath of patriots; every clod</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Answers her call</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And rises like a wall</p><p class="line">Against the foes of liberty and God!</p></div><p class="byline">-- Frank L. Stanton.</p></body></html> · Great War