...Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and child o skies ! Thy genius command thee; with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy...Thy reign is the last, and the noblest of time, Most fruitful thy soil, most inviting thy clime ; Let the crimes of the east ne'er encrimson thy name, Be...

...prose of its tme. The first stanza is "Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise. The queen of the world, and child of the skies! Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold, While ages on ages thy splendor unfold. Thy reign Is the last and the noblest of time, Most fruitful thy soil, most inviting...

...thunders expired; Perfumes as of Eden flowed sweetly along, And a voice as of angels, enchantir.gly sung: "Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies." Timolhy Dwight [1752-1817] "OH MOTHER OF A MIGHTY RACE" OH mother of a mighty race, Yet lovely in thy...

...thunders expired; Perfumes as of Eden, flowed sweetly along, And a voice, as of angels, enchantI0gly sung, "Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies I" But "Columbia" was by no means Dwight's first fervid national utterance. Though he was doomed to...

...thunders expired; Perfumes as of Eden, flowed sweetly along, And a voice, as of angels, enchantingly sung: Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies! Still better known, because it has been preserved in our familiar church songs, is Dwight's devotional...

...While the ensigns of union, in triumph unfurled, Hush the tumult of war and give peace to the world, Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise The queen of the world, and the child of the skies. TIMOTHY DWIGHT. PATRIA I would not even ask my heart to say If I could love another land as well As...

...expir'd ; Perfumes, as of Eden, flovv'd sweetly along, 45 And a voice, as of angels, enchantingly sung: ' | " (1777) PSALM CXXXVII I love thy kingdom, Lord, The house of thine abode, The church, our blest Redeemer...

...country alone. — Cushman K. Davis. Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and child of the skies! Thy genius commands thee; with...Thy reign is the last, and the noblest of time, Most fruitful thy soil, most inviting thy clime ; Let the crimes of the east ne'er crimson thy name, Be...

...But all for Each and each for All. EDMUND VANCE COOKE — Each for All, in The Uncommon Commoner, 8  @v . TIMOTHY DWIOHT — Columbia. 9 firing me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains,...

...Dwight (1752-1817), while chaplain in the army, composed his popular song " Columbia," beginning : — " Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, The queen of the world, and the child of the skies." But this did not satisfy Dwight's ambition, for he believed that a true epic should mark the foundation...