1. From all lands, our land has gathered many stories, many names, faiths, and languages, and cultures, kinship ties and clashing aims. Meeting here, we give each other good and evil hopes and longings, cruel visions, noble claims. 2. People of the ancient pathways, intimate with land and sea; people seized, enslaved, resisting, bound in sorrow, breaking free: first arrivals, forced arrivals, tell your stories, sing your stories, dreaming what we yet can be. 3. People drawn from Asia, Europe, by necessity or choice; people from our southern neighbors, fearful, hopeful, raise your voice: sad arrivals, glad arrivals, tell your stories, sing your stories, weep together, and rejoice. 4. Spirit, loving every people, since our borders now contain common and conflicting stories, heal the fractures that remain, seeding peace through town and city, peace in every hill and valley, peace for all upon the plain.