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As we reflect on what it means to honor one’s country, and as we mark our 249 years of independence in the USA, the FaithX team offers these words from the hymn, This is My Song (words by Lloyd Stone).

You may wish to listen to the song here, as sung by The Harvard University Choir.

This is My Song *

This is my song, O God of all the nations,

A song of peace for lands afar and mine.

This is my home, the country where my heart is;

Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;

But other hearts in other lands are beating

With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.

My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,

And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine.

But other lands have sunlight too and clover,

And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.

Oh, hear my song, O God of all the nations,

A song of peace for their land and for mine.

*To the melody of Finlandia