"The Union" (1859)
Song & Chorus
Written by
George Pope Morris Esq., 1802-1864
Composed by
John Rogers Thomas, 1830-1896

New York: William Hall & Son, 543 Broadway
Boston: Russell & Tolman
New Orleans: P. P. Werlein & Co.
Louisville: D. P. Faulds & Co.
Plate No. 4341
Engraver: Clayton.
[Sources: @NYPL; 090/098@Levy]

1. This the word beyond all others, 
Makes us love our country most, 
Makes us feel that we are brothers, 
And a heartunited host!— 
With hosanna let our banner, 
From the housetops be unfurl’d, 
While the union builds her station 
With the mightiest of the world!

CHORUS [sung after each verse]
Take your harps from silent willows, 
Shout the chorus of the free: 
“States are all distinct as billows, 
Union one— as is the sea!”

2. From the land of graves that have us, 
He’s a traitor who would swerve! 
By the flag now waving o’er us, 
We the compact will preserve! 
Those who gain’d it and sustain’d it, 
Were unto each other true, 
And the fable well is able 
To instruct us what to do!