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 the everlasting soul of Man, arising from the dust; breaking its way out of its prison—rending the bands of oppression and ignorance-groping its way to the light!"

The Marseillaise

(French captain of engineers, 1760-1836. He composed this most famous of all revolutionary songs in 1792, when the French republicans were resisting the armies of all the kings and emperors of Europe. The volunteers from Marseilles marched into Paris singing it—"seven hundred Marseillais who know how to die")

Ye sons of toil, awake to glory! Hark, hark, what myriads bid you rise; Your children, wives and grandsires hoary— Behold their tears and hear their cries! Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding, With hireling hosts, a ruffian band,— Affright and desolate the land, While peace and liberty lie bleeding?

To arms! to arms! ye brave! Th' avenging sword unsheathe! March on, march on, all hearts resolved On Victory or Death.

With luxury and pride surrounded, The vile, insatiate despots dare, Their thirst for gold and power unbounded, To mete and vend the light and air;