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Rh Oppression, that kills the craven,
 * Defied, is the freeman's good:

No cause can be lost forever whose cost
 * Is coined from Freedom's blood!

Liberty's Avine and altar
 * Are blood and human right;

Her weak shall be strong while the struggle with wrong
 * Is a sacrificial fight.

Earth for the people—their laws their own—
 * An equal race for all:

Though shattered and few who to this are true
 * Shall flourish the more they fall.