Ode

    GOD save the Rights of Man!
    Give us a heart to scan
    Blessings so dear:
    Let them be spread around
    Wherever man is found,
    And with the welcome sound
    Ravish his ear.

    Let us with France agree,
    And bid the world be free,
    While tyrants fall!
    Let the rude savage host
    Of their vast numbers boast--
    Freedom's almight trust
    Laughs at them all!

    Though hosts of slaves conspire
    To quench fair Gallia's fire,
    Still shall they fail:
    Though traitors round her rise,
    Leagu'd with her enemies,
    To war each patriot flies,
    And will prevail.

    No more is valor's flame
    Devoted to a name,
    Taught to adore--
    Soldiers of Liberty
    Disdain to bow the knee,
    But ateach Equality
    To every shore.

    The world at last will join
    To aid thy grand design,
    Dear Liberty!
    To Russia's frozen lands
    The generous flame expands:
    On Afric's burning sands
    Shall man be free!

    In this our western world
    Be Freedom's flag unfurl'd
    Through all its shores!
    May no destructive blast
    Our heaven of joy o'ercast,
    May Freedom's fabric last
    While time endures.

    If e'er her cause require!--
    Should tyrants e'er aspire
    To aim their stroke,
    May no proud despot daunt--
    Should he his standard plant,
    Freedom will never want
    Her hearts of oak!

        Philip Freneau