716 National Songs

1. God bless our native land;

firm may she ever stand

through storm and night;

when the wild tempests rave,

ruler of wind and wave,

do thou our country save

by thy great might.

2. For her our prayers shall rise

to God, above the skies;

on him we wait;

thou who are ever nigh,

guarding with watchful eye,

to thee aloud we cry,

God save the state!

Words: Siegfried August Mahlmann (1771-1826); tr. Charles Timothy Brooks (1813-1883) and John Sullivan Dwight (1812-1893), alt. Music: America, from Thesarus Musicus, 1745