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Oh, Uganda! The land of freedom, Our love and labour we give; And with neighbours all at our country's call In peace and friendship we'll live. III Oh, Uganda! The land that feeds us, By sun and fertile soil grown; For our own dear land, we shall always stand, The Pearl of Africa's Crown.
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We'll shout the freedom Of a race benighted, Long live Liberia, happy land! 𝄆 A home of glorious liberty, By God's command! 𝄇 II 𝄆 All hail, Liberia, hail! (All hail!) 𝄇 In union strong success is sure We cannot fail! 𝄆 With God above Our rights to prove We will o'er all prevail, 𝄇 𝄆 We will o'er all prevail, 𝄇 With ...
The cause of Freedom and of Right; Fill our hearts with true humility, Make us cherish fearless honesty, 𝄆 And help us to resist oppressors' rule With all our will and might for evermore. 𝄇 II Hail to thy name, O Ghana, To thee we make our solemn vow: Steadfast to build together A nation strong in Unity; With our gifts of mind and ...
The song alludes to, and explicitly states, the lack of freedom experienced by African Americans, and of their servitude to masters who controlled them. It highlights the dangers they were willing to face in order to escape enslavement, including death. Every stanza ends with a reference to Canada as the land "where colored men are free".
The first stanza revolved around the "caged bird" longing for freedom as spring and freedom exist around it. In stanza two, the bird is described as fighting to be free and escape the cage. Finally, the third stanza is about, as Burns notes, "the nature of the bird's song", as a "prayer for freedom." Every stanza begins and ends with a similar ...
The "Hymn to Liberty", [a] also known as the "Hymn to Freedom", [b] is a Greek poem written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 and set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros in 1828. It officially became the national anthem of Greece in 1864 and Cyprus in 1966. Consisting of 158 stanzas in total, is the longest national anthem in the world by length of text. [3]
This poem is one of Lord Tennyson's shortest pieces of literature. It is composed of two stanzas, three lines each. Contrary to the length, the poem is full of deeper meaning and figurative language. Often literary scholars believe the poem is short to emphasize the deeper meaning in nature itself, that the reader has to find himself.