Haiti, many a long sunsets!
Oh Haiti, the land of princes and princesses
Of Holy, prayerful and faithful men and women
No evil thou have done all
Nor even thou have God offend
As deserve ever recurring long sunsets
As deemed lives and livelihood loss
Oh Haiti, the land of princes and princesses
Of Holy, prayerful and faithful men and women
Hear women dying in the bowels of port-au- prince
Hear men crying in the hovels of port-au- price
With prayers on their lips
Wishing-hoping on to lives
Oh Haiti, the land of princes and princesses
Of Holy, prayerful and faithful men and women
Children crying to long silent mothers
Wives calling to long lifeless husbands
In the swallowing monster your land has become
In the swallowing appetite your land has begun
Oh Haiti, the land of princes and princesses
Of Holy, prayerful and faithful men and women
Long battered by hazardous hurricanes
Long butchered by horrible autocrats
Ye have borne poverty with buoyancy
Ye have borne pillage with resilience
Oh Haiti, the land of princes and princesses
Of Holy, prayerful and faithful men and women
Thou have lost a lot fortune
Thou have lost a loving family
I pray this to all end in haste
I pray this to all end in history
Oh Haiti, the land of princes and princesses
Of Holy, prayerful and faithful men and women
Your tears dry with the warm sun to shine
Your fears fly with the swarm birds to sky
Graves fill but not en-masse anymore
Braves free but not en-slave anymore
Oh Haiti, the land of princes and princesses
Of prayerful and faithful men and women
The world will forsake you not
The world all awept you now
God, wring banish the long sunsets to Haiti
God, bring back the smiling sunshine to Haiti
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