Speak, Columbia

poem for the 4th

O rivers of sweat, rivers so blue,
Columbia, Columbia, we call out to you!
What would you say in tandem,
With those blue boys in blue denim,
Who walked from ocean to ocean?
Blood on their hands, 
They crossed these foreign lands,
Nothing could hold them back, 
Nay, for they never did lack,
Neither courage nor honor,
Virtue so true.

What shall you say in tandem, 
With these blue boys in blue denim,
Who walked from ocean to ocean?
Blood on their hands, 
They conquered these foreign lands,
They build a mighty civilization,
Known as the American Nation,
A homefront to hunt,
A land to love.

O Columbine, what will you say in tandem,
With your American boys in blue denim,
Who are replaced from ocean to ocean?
Blood on the lands,
They compete against foreign hands,
Here, the place of their nativity,
Founded by their ancestry,
For posterity and blood,
Alas, now cast to mud.