Great God of na­tions, now to Thee
Our hymn of gra­ti­tude we raise;
With hum­ble heart and bend­ing knee
We of­fer Thee our song of praise.

Thy name we bless, al­migh­ty God,
For all the kind­ness Thou hast shown
To this fair land the pil­grims trod,
This land we fond­ly call our own.

Here free­dom spreads her ban­ner wide
And casts her soft and hal­lowed ray;
Here Thou our fa­thers’ steps didst guide
In safe­ty through their dan­ger­ous way.

We praise Thee that the Gos­pel’s light
Through all our land its ra­di­ance sheds,
Dispels the shades of er­ror’s night,
And hea­ven­ly bless­ings round us spreads.

Great God, pre­serve us in Thy fear;
In dan­ger still our guard­ian be;
O spread Thy truth’s bright pre­cepts here;
Let all the pe­ople wor­ship Thee.