TRUE FREEDOM.
CHARLES MACKAY.
We want no flag, no flaunting rag, For liberty tw fight; We want no blaze of murderous guns To struggle for the right. Our spears and swords are printed words, The mind our battle-plain : We’ve won such victories before, And so wc shall again.
We love no triumphs sprung of force— They stain her brightest cause; ’Tis not in blood that liberty Inscribes her civil laws ; She writes them on the people’s hearts, In language clear and plain ; True thoughts have moved the world before, And so they shall again.
We yield to none in earnest love Of freedom’s cause sublime ; We join the cry “ Fraternity 1” We keep the march of time. And yet we grasp not pike nor spear, Our victories to obtain ; We’ve won without their aid before, And so we shall again.
Wc want no aid to barricade To show a front to wrong; Wc have a citadel in truth, More durable than strong. Calm words, great thoughts, unflinching faith, Have never striven in vain, They’ve won our battles many a time, And so they shall again.
Pence, progress, knowledge, brotherhood, The ignorant may sneer, The bad deny, but wc rely To sec their triumph near. No widows’ groans shall aid our cause, No blood of brethren stain ; We’ve won without such aid before, And so we shall again.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1600, 7 August 1874, Page 313
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227TRUE FREEDOM. Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1600, 7 August 1874, Page 313
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