We the people

We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.
My country! ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims pride, From every mountain side, Let freedom ring!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.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.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!
Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountains majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea. Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare of freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self control, Thy liberty in law. Oh, beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness, And every grain divine. Oh beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years. Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears. America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands under God indivisible with justice and freedom for all.
That’s the view from my side of the street, what’s yours? Have a happy and safe 4th!