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 We have boasted our courage in moments of ease, Our star-spangled banner we’ve flung on the breeze; We have taught men to cheer for its beauty and worth, And have called it the flag of the bravest on earth. Now the dark days are here, we must stand to the test. Oh, God! let us prove we are true to our best!

We have drunk to our flag, and we’ve talked of the right, We have challenged oppression to show us its might; We have strutted for years through the world as a race That for God and for country, earth’s tyrants would face; Now the gage is flung down, hate is loosed in the world. Oh, God! shall our flag in dishonor be furled?