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For forty years he plotted,

For forty years he planned,

His ships on every ocean,

His spies in every land;

He perverted social progress,

He exploited poor men's thrift,

He "utilized" the princeling

And the human wreck adrift.

There was naught for him too trifling,

Or too great for him to wrench,

He corrupted press and pulpit,

Even Justice on the bench;

The maid who dressed my lady

The man who drove her car,

The statesman in the senate,

And the men who lead in war.

And yet for all his well laid trains,

For all the fires he fanned,

For all the things he bought and sold,

And all the plots he planned:

He shall not pull it off, my boy,

He can not put it through,

He's up against a world in arms

Of fearless men and true.