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Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
Song forbids victorious deeds to die.
Song forbids victorious deeds to die.
 She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with 
pity: and when winter evenings fall early read more 
 She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with 
pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry 
wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of 
fortune . . . and fears no manner of ill because she means none. 
 In the ink of our sweat we will find it yet,
 The song that is fit for men!  
 In the ink of our sweat we will find it yet,
 The song that is fit for men! 
 I cannot sing the old songs
 Though well I know the tune,
  Familiar as a cradle-song
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 I cannot sing the old songs
 Though well I know the tune,
  Familiar as a cradle-song
   With sleep-compelling croon;
    Yet though I'm filled with music,
     As choirs of summer birds,
      "I cannot sing the old songs"--
       I do not know the words. 
 We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground,
 Give us a song to cheer.  
 We are tenting tonight on the old camp ground,
 Give us a song to cheer. 
 A song of hate is a song of Hell;
 Some there be who sing it well.
  Let read more 
 A song of hate is a song of Hell;
 Some there be who sing it well.
  Let them sing it loud and long,
   We lift our hearts in a loftier song:
    We life our hearts to Heaven above,
     Singing the glory of her we love,
      England. 
 I think, whatever mortals crave,
 With impotent endeavor,
  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--
   The read more 
 I think, whatever mortals crave,
 With impotent endeavor,
  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--
   The world goes round forever;
    I think that life is not too long,
     And therefore I determine,
      That many people read a song,
       Who will not read a sermon. 
The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.
The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.