My Country, 'Tis of Thee

"***My Country, 'Tis of Thee***", juga dikenal dengan judul "***America***", adalah lagu patriotik Amerika Serikat. Liriknya ditulis oleh Samuel Francis Smith, sementara melodi yang digunakan adalah melodi yang sama dengan lagu kebangsaan Britania Raya, "*[[God Save the King]]*", yang digubah oleh Thomas Arne. Lagu ini pernah menjadi salah satu lagu kebangsaan *[[de facto]]* Amerika Serikat (bersama dengan lagu lain seperti "Hail, Columbia") sebelum lagu "*[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]*" ditetapkan sebagai lagu kebangsaan resmi Amerika Serikat pada tahun 1931.

## Lirik
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: My country, 'tis of thee,
: Sweet land of liberty,
: Of thee I sing;
: Land where my fathers died,
: Land of the pilgrims' pride,
: From ev'ry mountainside
: Let freedom ring!
; 2
: My native country, thee,
: Land of the noble free,
: Thy name I love;
: I love thy rocks and rills,
: Thy woods and templed hills;
: My heart with rapture thrills,
: Like that above.

; 3
: Let music swell the breeze,
: And ring from all the trees
: Sweet freedom's song;
: Let mortal tongues awake;
: Let all that breathe partake;
: Let rocks their silence break,
: The sound prolong.

; 4
:Our fathers' God to Thee,
:Author of liberty,
:To Thee we sing.
:Long may our land be bright,
:With freedom's holy light,
:Protect us by Thy might,
:Great God our King.

*Bait tambahan untuk merayakan 100 tahun pengangkatan [[George Washington]] sebagai presiden:*
; 5
: Our joyful hearts today,
: Their grateful tribute pay,
: Happy and free,
: After our toils and fears,
: After our blood and tears,
: Strong with our hundred years,
: O God, to Thee.

*Bait-bait tambahan oleh [[Henry van Dyke]]*:
;6
: We love thine inland seas,
: Thy groves and giant trees,
: Thy rolling plains;
: Thy rivers' mighty sweep,
: Thy mystic canyons deep,
: Thy mountains wild and steep,--
: All thy domains.

;7
: Thy silver Eastern strands,
: Thy Golden Gate that stands
: Fronting the West;
: Thy flowery Southland fair,
: Thy North's sweet, crystal air:
: O Land beyond compare,
: We love thee best!

*Bait-bait [[Abolitionisme]] tambahan oleh A. G. Duncan, 1843*:
;8
:My country, 'tis of thee,
:Stronghold of slavery, of thee I sing;
:Land where my fathers died,
:Where men man’s rights deride,
:From every mountainside thy deeds shall ring!

;9
:My native country, thee,
:Where all men are born free, if white’s their skin;
:I love thy hills and dales,
:Thy mounts and pleasant vales;
:But hate thy negro sales, as foulest sin.

;10
:Let wailing swell the breeze,
:And ring from all the trees the black man’s wrong;
:Let every tongue awake;
:Let bond and free partake;
:Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.

;11
:Our father’s God! to thee,
:Author of Liberty, to thee we sing;
:Soon may our land be bright,
:With holy freedom’s right,
:Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King.

;12
:It comes, the joyful day,
:When tyranny’s proud sway, stern as the grave,
:Shall to the ground be hurl’d,
:And freedom’s flag, unfurl’d,
:Shall wave throughout the world, O’er every slave.

;13
:Trump of glad jubilee!
:Echo o’er land and sea freedom for all.
:Let the glad tidings fly,
:And every tribe reply,
:“Glory to God on high,” at Slavery’s fall.

## Penampilan populer
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## Lihat pula
* *[[God Save the Queen]]*
* *[[Heil dir im Siegerkranz]]*
* *[[Kongesangen]]*
* *[[Oben am jungen Rhein]]*
* *[[Molitva Russkikh]]*
* *[[Rufst du, mein Vaterland]]*

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## Pranala luar

* Page about the song at the Library of Congress, with scans, etc.
* Public Domain version of the sheet music in multiple formats for viewing, printing, editing, etc. – (from the Choral Public Domain Library)
* Review of a book about the song from the ''Journal of American History''
* CyberHymnal  – contains history, lyrics, and infinitely-looping MIDI music.
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