Tue 4 Jul 2006
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, ‘What should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”
Samuel Adams
Star Spangled Banner
Verse 4
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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have a happy 4th!
sounds like you and your family have a fun day planned … enjoy!
Comment by julie (July 4, 2006 @ 8:35 am )
That is the coolest carving…I get goose bumps every time I look at it.
Comment by Dana (July 4, 2006 @ 10:20 am )
That last verse of the Star Spangled Banner always gives me shivers. Rare, though, is it when I hear someone sing that song all the way through.
Have a happy Independence Day!
Comment by Gracie (July 4, 2006 @ 10:41 am )
Salute to dangerous men who stand watch over the halls of liberty. Molon Labe
Comment by Timothy (July 4, 2006 @ 2:13 pm )
The Samuel Adams quote reminded me of Genesis 49:14-15, “Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
And then of verse 21a: “Naphtali is a hind let loose . . .”
Comment by Jeannine (July 4, 2006 @ 9:25 pm )