So many things could be said about the Fourth of July. Our independence, our freedom is not to be taken lightly. I’m simply putting here a couple of poems to celebrate the day. I hope each of you, my readers, has a blessed and safe Fourth of July!
Four Things
Four things in any land must dwell,
If it endures and prospers well;
One is manhood true and good;
One is noble womanhood;
One is child life, clean and bright;
And one an altar kept alight,
–Author Unknown
My Native Land
Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land?
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d
From wandering on a foreign strand?
–Sir Walter Scott
Happy Birthday, America!
We sang the poem by Sir Walter Scott in choir one year.
That’s neat, Missy!