Hold One and All

The moment may never be
and we will try to raise up our hands
and shake off the chains that bind us down
into these forbidding lands
While people will mock and point and laugh and children will all go cold
as we as foolish as we can be argue over what we have been told
May we gather our young and gather our new
gather our old and gather our few
May we hold one and all and hold all near
and keep one another close with no fear
The moment may never be
that the world will shut her eyes forever
so we shake off the chains that hold us captive
and learn to be wise and learn to be clever
While those who mock and point and laugh will one day wither away
let's not be foolish and blind and walk far from the better way
May we gather our young and gather our new
gather our old and gather our few
May we hold one and all and hold all near
and keep one another close with no fear