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 Out to the sea with her there, Out with her over the sand; Let the kings keep the earth for their share! We have done with the sharers of land.

They have tied the world in a tether, They have bought over God with a fee; While three men hold together, The kingdoms are less by three.

We have done with the kisses that sting, The thief’s mouth red from the feast, The blood on the hands of the king And the lie at the lips of the priest.

Will they tie the winds in a tether, Put a bit in the jaws of the sea? While three men hold together, The kingdoms are less by three.

Let our flag run out straight in the wind! The old red shall be floated again When the ranks that are thin shall be thinned, When the names that were twenty are ten;

When the devil’s riddle is mastered And the galley-bench creaks with a Pope, We shall see Buonaparte the bastard Kick heels with his throat in a rope.