THE God of Freedom bless,
With strength for self-redress,
The People’s might;
The cause of man to save,
Arouse each willing slave!
Unite the ready brave!
UNITE! UNITE!
Awake, ye slavish things!
Beneath your Priests and Kings!
Long curbed by lies!
The altar’s but a sod,
The sceptre but a rod,
A People is a god!
O God, arise!
Think! as your fathers thought;
Teach! as your fathers taught;
Fight! as your fathers fought;
When words are vain!
Tear up the rooted wrong!
Strike down the falsely strong!
Slave-herds, degraded long,
Be men again!
A few, a very few,
Still struggle bravely through,-
And call for aid!
Confound the open foe;
Lay tool and trickster low,
Unmask the specious show,
Of knaves by trade.
Unseal the People’s eyes,
Teach them to fathom lies,
And know the true!
Give them the sense to care,
Give them the strength to hear,
Give them the soul to dare,
And hand to do!
The reign of wrong shall end,
When every slave’s a friend,
To win the right;
One thought in million brains,
One pulse in million veins,
Will break the strongest chains,
UNITE! UNITE!
(Ernest Jones)
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