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* (1943) *
Text ~ (Reproduced here because of the rarity of the paper in which it appears - I thought it would be nice to share it with those who have never seen it.)
This is Freedom--
America bought it--for a price--
From scalping knives and red war hatchets
In ragged clearings about burned cabins
This is Freedom--
America bought it--for a price--
With long rifle and starvation
At Brandywine and Saratoga,
Valley Forge and Yorktown
This is Freedom--
America bought it--for a price--
With frigates' broadsides
To proclaim seas free to all nations
This is Freedom--
America bought it--for a price--
With bayonets at Chateau Thierry and
Belleau Wood
And in the shattered forests of the Argonne
This is Freedom--
America buys it--at a price--
In the air and distant seas
And on the beaches of ravaged lands,
With our hands and bodies and those minds
Trained to act and work
That this Freedom shall not perish from this earth.
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