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Injustice seeks to throttle right,
And laughter’s stifled to a sigh.
If death can take so great a blight
From human lives, then let me die.
If death must be the cost of life,
And freedom’s terms are human souls,
Into the thickest of the strife
Then let me go to pay the tolls.
I would enrich my native land,
New splendor to her flag I’d give,
If where I fall shall freedom stand,
And where I die shall freedom live.
Tomorrow death with me may trade;
Let me not quibble o’er the price;
But may I, once the bargain’s made,
With courage meet the sacrifice.
If happiness for ages long
My little term of life can buy,
God, for my country make me strong;
Tomorrow let me bravely die.
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