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OUR COUNTRY

Let us serve our Country!
Whether times be good,
Or disaster whelm her
Like a winter flood.
Let us serve our Country:
Give her life or death;
Give her every action,
Hope, and breath!
Let us serve our Country!
Where our Fathers' dust
Makes each acre holy,
Every field a trust.
Let us serve our Country!
Where our homesteads are;
Lift her fame to heaven,—
Worth's own star.
Let us serve our Country!
That belovéd land,

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Bride-like, proudly beauteous,
Wonderfully grand.
Let us serve her gladly,
Serve her even to death,
Worship her with action,
Hope, and breath!