God Bless America!

by R. D. Ashby



God bless America! – Say, rather, God bless the world, much bigger and much wider than America, within which is America and Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and all lands. Say again, God bless the world: sun, moon and planets, next whom America is shrunk further, but not in what's hoped! God bless the universe, stars and galaxies, on all bestow the blessing of God: America a speck in this panorama, yet not the less well wished! God bless humanity: here's the best blessing of them all: as large as the world, its vast human soul America amounts to, the world amounts to, in each human being: God bless each man, and in each man, God bless the world, in each American and other man; it but remains that God's blessing be done - but that this is done in God's blessing complete in God's own beloved Son; America, the world, each man, God blesses inasmuch as God the Son.

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