Patria + 

I would not even ask my heart to say + 

If I could love another land as well + 

As thee, my country, had I felt the spell + 

Of Italy at birth, or learned to obey + 

The charm of France, or England’s mighty sway. + 

I would not be so much an infidel + 

As once to dream, or fashion words to tell, + 

What land could hold my heart from thee away. + 

For like a law of nature in my blood, + 

America, I feel thy sovereignty, + 

And woven through my soul thy vital sign. + 

My life is but a wave and thou the flood; + 

I am a leaf and thou the mother-tree; + 

Nor should I be at all, were I not thine. + 