The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 - National Spirit by Various
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Too much we make our ledgers, gods.
Yet hands all round! God the tyrant's cause confound! To Europe's better health we drink, my friends, And the great name of England, round and round! What health to France, if France be she, Whom martial progress only charms? Yet tell her--better to be free Than vanquish all the world in arms. Her frantic city's flashing heats But fire, to blast the hopes of men. Why change the titles of your streets? You fools, you'll want them all again. Hands all round! God the tyrant's cause confound! To France, the wiser France, we drink, my friends, And the great name of England, round and round. Gigantic daughter of the West, We drink to thee across the flood! We know thee and we love thee best; For art thou not of British blood? Should war's mad blast again be blown, Permit not thou the tyrant powers To fight thy mother here alone, But let thy broadsides roar with ours. Hands all round! God the tyrant's cause confound! To our great kinsman of the West, my friends, |
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