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 We have wandered afar in our hunting for pleasure, We have scorned the soul’s duty to gather up treasure; We have lived for our laughter and toiled for our winning And paid little heed to the soul’s simple sinning. But light were the burdens that freighted us then, God and Country, today let us prove we are men!

We have idled and dreamed in life’s merriest places, The years have writ little of care in our faces; We have brought up our children, expectant of gladness, And little we’ve taught them of life and its sadness. For distant and dim seemed the forces of wrong, God and Country, today let us prove we are strong!