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  All the world that's owned by idle drones,
 * Is ours and ours alone.

We have laid the wide foundations.
 * Built it skywards stone by sronestone [sic].

It is ours and not to slave in,
 * But to master and to own,
 * While the Union makes us strong.

They have taken untold millions
 * That they never toiled to earn,

But without our brain and muscle
 * Not a single wheel can turn!

We can break their galling shackles—
 * Gain our freedom when we learn
 * That the Union makes us strong.

In our hands is placed a power
 * Greater than their greedy gold—

Greater than the might of armies,
 * Magnified a thousandfold;

We can bring to birth the new world
 * From the ashes of the old,
 * For the Union makes us strong!

