happy mlk day

[mihihihi]

lift ev'ry voice and sing
till earth and heaven ring
ring with the harmonies of liberty
let our rejoicing rise
high as the listening 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 a new day begun
let it resound till victory is won

stony the road we trod
bitter the chastening 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 fathers died
we have come over a way that with tears have been watered
we have come treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered
out from our gloomy past
till now we stand at last
where the white gleam of our bright star is cast

God of our weary years
God of our silent tears
thou who has brought us thus far on the way
thou who has 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 native land