Hope's Joyous Cry

Shroud me, moments after my death

with the shield of my nation

Shroud me, head to foot

with the three colors of my flag

But there will arrive a great day when

my tomb will be unsealed

And Hope's joyous cry will ring

And Hope's joyous cry will ring

Above my tomb

as patient as the sea

will sit a lonely Hope

testing the patience of eternity

But there will arrive a great day when

my tomb will be unsealed

And Hope's joyous cry will ring

And Hope's joyous cry will ring

My bony remains will lift that shield

And I will rise, holding a flag once a shroud

Hoisted high, before the world, before infinity

But there will arrive a great day when

my tomb will be unsealed

And Hope's joyous cry will ring

And Hope's joyous cry will ring