lirik lagu richard mitchley - hymn for the first of august by john pierpoint
where britannia’s emerald isles
gem the caribbean sea
and an endless summer smiles
lo! the negro thrall is free!
yet not on columbia’s plains
hath the sun of freedom risen:
here, in darkness and in chains
toiling millions pine in prison
shout! ye islands disenthralled
point the finger, as in scorn
at a country that is called
freedom’s home, where men are born
heirs, for life, to chains and whips,—
bondmen, who have never known
wife, child, parent, that their lips
evеr dared to call their own
yet, a christian land is this!
yеa, and ministers of christ
slavery’s foot, in homage, kiss;
and their brother, who is priced
higher than their saviour, even
do they into bondage sell;—
pleading thus the cause of heaven
serving thus the cause of h~ll
holy father, let thy word
spoken by thy prophets old
by the pliant priest be heard;
and let lips, that now are cold
(chilled by mammon’s golden wand!)
with our nation’s ‘burden’ glow
till the free man and the bond
shout for slavery’s overthrow!
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