A Belated Thanksgiving Prayer
Before the first prayer was carried,
From a Pilgrim's cracking lips,
Before the first man was indentured
To suffer under his fellow man's whip
Before scandalous Raleigh,
His fair vessel had first steer,
Before Powatan his first brave had rally,
To his host with bloody cheer,
There was He, whom this land
Before Charles and Louis called her King,
He who made her,
Who sculpt her mountains
Who planted her woods,
And ploughed her valleys
For his children
He saw a-coming.
He made this land laws
Afore the first assembly had convene,
He made this country's watered and rich,
He opened each channel and stream.
Before man claim his destiny
Manifest to raise his banner between the seas,
His Heavenly banner he had raised,
And claimed all for eternity.
He was the first American,
And the first European,
And Asian too,
But of all the world,
To whom He is King,
It's our day to him give thanks.