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By TheodoreTilton640 God Save the Nation
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Famine, and fire, and sword, and lamentation,
Now unto Thee we lift our supplication,—
O, save the Nation!
Coming in clouds, while mortal men stand fearing,
Show us, amid the smoke of battle clearing,
Thy chariot nearing.
Hurl Thou a thunderbolt from out Thy quiver!
Break Thou the strong gates! every fetter shiver!
Smite and deliver!
Then, in the blood-red Valley of Decision,
Clothe Thou the fields, as in the prophet’s vision,
With peace Elysian!