Από την Κρήτη εθελοντής στον Αμερικανικό Στρατό., item 81

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     Between their loved home and wild war’s desolation;

  Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the lieav’n-rescued

         land

     Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserved us a

        nation!

  Then conquer we must.

  When our cause it is just,

  And this be our motto : “In God is our trust !"

     And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

  
  

                                  ILLINOIS

  
  

  1 By the rivers gently flowing,

                Illinois, Illinois,

      O'er thy prairies verdant growing,

                Illinois, Illinois,

     Comes an echo on the breeze,

     Rustling through the leafy trees,

     And its mellow tones are these,

                 Illinois, Illinois,

     And its mellow tones are these,

                 Illinois.

  
  

  2 From a wilderness of prairies,

                 Illinois, Illinois,

     Straight thy way and never varies,

                 Illinois, Illinois,

     Till upon the inland sea,

     Stands thy great commercial tree,

     Turning all the world to thee,

                  Illinois, Illinois,

     Turning all the world to thee,

                  Illinois.

  
  

  3 When you heard your country calling

                  Illinois, Illinois,

     Where the shot and shell were falling,

                  Illinois, Illinois,
  

  
  

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