O Haiti, Haiti O
O Haiti, Haiti O how dark the clouds
That flock your sky like screaming birds
For victuals, how pensive the crowds
That mourn your history of frail shepherds
That could not keep Tousaint's dream
From crumbling like spectra in a stream
O Haiti, Haiti O
My heart goes to you, and I kneel now
Under a weight of shadow's sorrow bow
O Haiti, Haiti O
O Haiti, Haiti O my sister country
My legacy of the right to self belief
No rubble spans your rich liberty
That can endure the balm of grief
Yet though your foundations shake
And bodies has strewn the gory lake
O Haiti, Haiti O
Resilient spirit your unfractured faith
Shall be the wings of a resurgent state
O Haiti, Haiti O
O Haiti, Haiti O for our forebears
Let courage into toil transpose us
Singing through the march of cares
We build our victory from the dust
And write anew ancestral name here
By love united at the pinnacle of despair
O Haiti, Haiti O
The fields are fertile where they died
The dreams shall blossom where we cried
O Haiti, Haiti O
Copyright © L'Nass Shango | Year Posted 2010
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