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“We are free, we are free;
We are waves of the sea,
And we love liberty!
Day after day, day after day
We wear the rocks away;
The rocks which wall the caves,
Where toil the wretched slaves.
Strike hard, O slaves, and be,
Like us, forever free!”

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[“We are slaves, we are slaves]

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“We are slaves, we are slaves,
Poor toiling slaves are we;
Toiling forever in the caves,
Listening forever to the waves,
That sing forever, ‘We are free.’”

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MONA'S SONG.

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“In a castle by the sea,
Lives a lady of high degree;
She hath silver, she hath gold,

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And a heart as hard and cold.
Prince Liber, Prince Liber
Will come o'er the sea!
“In her glittering marble halls,
There the silvery fountain falls;
In her dark and loathsome mines,
There no sunlight ever shines.
Prince Liber, Prince Liber
Will come o'er the sea.”

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[“Oh, the good Prince Liber]

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“Oh, the good Prince Liber
Will come o'er the sea.
In the great white ship he sails o'er the waves,
He hears the sad cry of the toiling slaves;
He will set the bondman free,
He will give us liberty!”