 | Original Songs (1861) |  |
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THE CAUSE FOR WHICH WE ARM.
I
Defence, and not defiance, isThe cause for which we arm.
We'll neither give nor take offence:
Threats cause us no alarm;
But in our own defence we'll stand,
And for our freedom die.
They need but on our island land,
Who would our valour try.
II
True Britons are no swaggerers;They make no idle boast,
But quiet as the rocks they stand,
That frown along our coast;
But threats, they gall our ancient blood,
And on our heart-strings jar;
And rather than we'd live in doubt,
We would choose open war.
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