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"The Lone Star Forever"

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When Freedom raised her glowing form
On Montserrado's verdant height,
She set within the dome of night,
Midst lowering skies and thunder-storm,
The star of Liberty!
And seizing from the waking morn,
Its burnished shield of golden flame,
She lifted it in her proud name,
And roused a nation long forlorn,
To nobler destiny!

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Then speeding in her course, along
The broad Atlantic's golden strand,
She woke reverb'rant through the land
A nation's loud triumphant song,
The song of Liberty!
And o'er Liberia's altar fires
She wide the lone-starred flag unfurled,
proclaimed to an expectant world,
The birth, for Africa's sons and sires,
The birth of Liberty!

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The lone star forever!
The lone star forever!
Unfurled in the currents of heaven's pure breeze,
O long may it float o'er land and o'er seas
Desert it? No! Never!
Uphold it? ay, ever!
O shout for the lone-starred banner, Hurrah!

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Then, forward, sons of Freedom, March!
Defend the sacred heritage!
The nation's call from age to age
Where'er it sounds 'neath heaven's arch,
Wherever foes assail,
be ever ready to obey
'Gainst treason and rebellion's front,
'Gainst foul aggression. In the brunt
Of battle lay the hero's way!
All hail, Lone Star, all hail!

History and Descriptions of National and Regional Flags of Liberia

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