Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Joseph Hopkinson, 1770-1842. And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Robert Treat Paine, 1772-1811.

Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise.
The queen of the world, and child of the skies!
Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold
While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.
Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817.