%images; ]> scsm-000056 Emancipation hymn : quartette & chorus / composed and dedicated by permission to the Salem Union League by Manuel Fenollosa, Salem, Mass., June 1863 ; [words by R.T.L.] ...: a machine readable transcription. STERN COLLECTION OF LINCOLNIANA, Library of Congress Selected and converted. American Memory, Library of Congress.

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Emancipation Hymn.

Long our land in blood had weltered, Blood of dearest sons: Long had Hero Spirits faltered, Not at booming guns: Long our pray'r to Heav'n ascended Fraught with bondmen's groans; Long with victory's cheers had blended Fettered manhood's moans! God hath heard us, God hath heard us, and in mercy Gives us bread for stones. God hath heard us, God hath heard us, and in mercy Gives us bread for stones.

Asking for a Land, for a Land united, We forgot the slave. Pray'd we for our Country, for our Country blighted--For our falling brave, Left the bondman, chas'd by blood hounds Scented thro' the cane, God was with that panting brother; Pray'd we thus in vain! Ask, as we would serve another, ask and he will hear again! Ask, as we would serve another, ask and he will hear again!

He hath heard; O give Him glory! Heard the Bondman's pray'r: O'er the war path, red and gory Thro' the slave-hound's lair, Peals the mandate of salvation, “Let my people go.” Humbled, bleeding, hear the nation Answer, “Be it so!” Who shall weary! Who shall weary! who shall falter! God is with us now!