Rally Round The Tree Of Liberty… a sonnet of hope.
Let us no more with timid hope, lay fallow in tyrannies path; for soon, the tyrant would swallow those who dare not… fly. Let loose, the bands that hold us down… No more to be found. Let loose, the fetters forged, by the tyrant's power… bound.
Let the People arise… Too, share freedoms burden; to, show the way… Too, secure the path, where freedom walks; that men may know… America lives. Where hope is not lost… eagles soon fly. Be of good cheer my good… fellow. For God has given us a home. A home, no tyrant may take… Where hope is sure and liberty… abounds. Here,the son’s of liberty soon shall… resound.
Let loose the cannons bark… Let go, the cry of liberty… That tyranny may soon embark… from the land of the bold. That others, yet unborn, may awake… too, find liberty sure. That the world may know; America holds fast to liberties hope… The land of the brave and home of the free…
Arise ye men of old… take hold of liberties tree; shake hard the root of past men’s labor… Make sure the fruit, for others to come. Refresh the tree of liberty, with the blood of those who would bring it low… Let the fields run red, and the rivers bleed, for liberty requires it… of those who will be free.
Rally round the tree of liberty… and live free. For cowards dare not take wings to fly… nor in freedom do they live… whose, hope is lost and resolve soon taken… there tyrants reside.
By: Ronald A. Nelson
COL. US Army (Ret)
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The death of liberty is found in the silence of the masses as they bow before the tyrant and his minions of oppression. For the timid may inherit the earth only when the bold in Christ take it back.