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The Patriot Three that met of yore Beneath the midnight sky, And leagued their hearts on the Grütli shore, In the name of liberty!

They start not at the hunter's call, Nor the Lammer-geyer's cry, Nor the rush of a sudden torrent's fall, Nor the Lauwine thundering by!

But when the battle-horn is blown Till the Schreckhorn's peaks reply, When the Jungfrau's cliffs send back the tone Through their eagles' lonely sky;