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000The real words of Leaning on a lamp-post
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000The real words of Leaning on a lamp-postArise! ye starvelings from your slumbers!
Arise! ye criminals of want!
For reason in revolt now thunders,
And at last ends the age of cant.
Now away with all your superstitions,
Servile masses, arise! arise!
We'll change forthwith the old conditions
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
Then, comrades, come rally!
And the last fight let us face,
The Internationale
Unites the human race!
No saviours from on high deliver,
No trust have we in prince or peer;
Our own right hand the chains must sever,
Chains of hatred, of greed and fear,
Ere the thieves will out with their booty
And to all give a happier lot,
Each at this forge must do his duty
And strike the iron while it's hot!
Then, comrades, come rally!
And the last fight let us face,
The Internationale
Unites the human race!
We peasants, artisans and others
Enrolled among the sons of toil,
Let's claim the earth henceforth for brothers,
Drive the indolent from the soil.
On our flesh too long has fed the raven,
We've too long been the vultures' prey:
But now, farewell the spirit craven,
The dawn brings in a brighter day.
Then, comrades, come rally!
And the last fight let us face,
The Internationale
Unites the human race!
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