'LIFT EVERY VOICE' BY CHIMA DANIEL.
Lift every voice and sing,
till the world around joyfully rings,
rings with the tones of victories ;
let our rejoicing rise
high as the moving skies,
let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
bitter the disciplining rod,
felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
yet with a steady beat,
have not our weary feet
come to the place for which our fears mount?
We have come over a way that with sweat as river.
we have come, treading our path through heat and beat of our lives,
out from the gruesome past,
till now we stand at last
where the silvery gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might,
led us into the light,
keep us forever in the path, we pray.
lest our feet stray from the places,
our God, where we met Thee,
lest our hearts,
drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
shadowed beneath Thy hand,
may we forever stand,
true to our God,
true to our purpose on earth.
CHIMA DANIEL.
The bard writes to fulfill mankind with hope from the new month of July. He encourages his readers to stand with God and determination.
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