Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed — Let…

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

Sourced, Let America Be America Again, from A New Song (1938)

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