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The conqueror of a thousand ﬁelds! Not as in olden time, When carnage urged its crimson path, And conquest was a crime— But in a universal war For every right sublime.

The laurel that he wears should have In English hearts its birth; His victories kept inviolate Our island’s sacred earth; They were the glorious ransom given For every English hearth.