Thy fatal shafts unerring move,

I bow before thine altar, Love!

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771): Roderick Random. Chap. xl.

Hail, Columbia! happy land!

Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!

Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,

Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,

And when the storm of war was gone,

Enjoyed the peace your valor won.

Let independence be our boast,

Ever mindful what it cost;

Ever grateful for the prize,

Let its altar reach the skies!

Joseph Hopkinson (1770-1842): Hail, Columbia!

The great world's altar-stairs,

That slope through darkness up to God.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): In Memoriam. lv. Stanza 4.