July 04, 2008
Let Freedom Ring- An Independence Day Poem
The Inner Battery at Fort Sumpter, site of the first shots fired in the War Between the States Charleston South Carolina
Today we make our own again,
The hope which Christ, our life, has sown
In fertile fields and streets of stone
Let freedom ring!
Where Justice works amid the weed
Of rampant want and choking greed
To loose the voice of human need
Let freedom ring!
Where Mercy's fingers, slashed and torn
Untange love fromtwisted thorn
Of anger disbelief and scorn
Let freedom ring!
Where heart's imprisoned toil and weep,
Our founders' dreams still trouble sleep
With harvests we have yet to reap
Let freedom ring!
In Christ, we tend what God has planned,
With justice mercy truth in hand
Till joy sings out throughout the land
Let freedom ring!
Sr. Geneveive Glen OSB
An original cannon used in the Civil War in its emplacement, Fort Sumpter South Carolina
Labels: Poem, Traveling
