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Once over the ocean in distant lands	A
In an age long past were two hostile bands	A
Two armies of men both brave both strong	B
And their hearts beat high as they marched along	B
To fight the battle of right and wrong	B
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Never I think did the Eye of heaven	C
Look down on two armies so nearly even	D
In well trained soldiers in strength and might	E
But one was the	F
Wrong	B
and one was the	F
Right	E
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And the last was the stronger in heaven's sight	E
And these hostile armies drew near one night	E
And pitched their tents on two hill sides green	G
With only the brow of a hill between	G
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With the first red beams of the morning light	E
Both knew would open the awful fight	E
And one of the armies lay hushed and still	H
And slept in the tents on the green side hill	H
Heart beat with heart and they all were as one	C
In the thought of the battle to be begun	C
With the first bright glance of the morning sun	C
Their aim was ignoble their cause was wrong	B
But they were	I
united	J
and so they were strong	B
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Not so the army just over the hill	H
While the ranks of the foe were hushed and still	H
The ranks of the	F
Right	E
were torn with strife	K
And with noise and confusion the air was rife	K
Disputes and quarrels dissensions and jars	L
And the sound of fighting and civil wars	M
And ere the morning brother and brother	I
Instead of the enemy fought with each other	I
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Over the hill the foe in glee	N
Listened and laughed 'Ho ho ' quoth he	N
'There is strife in the enemy's ranks I see	N
And the bright red beams of the rising sun	C
Will see a victory easily won	C
It matters little how strong the foe	O
This is a truth we all do know	O
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There is no success without unity	N
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However noble the cause may be	N
The day is ours before it's begun	C
Ho for the triumph so easily won '	-
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And on the morrow the ranks of the Right	E
Were routed and beaten and put to flight	E
And the Wrong was the victor and gained the fight	E
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There are two armies abroad to day	P
As in the age that has passed away	P
The makers and venders and patrons and all	Q
Who aid in the traffic of Alcohol	R
These are the warriors bold and strong	B
Who swell the ranks of the army of Wrong	B
And we are the soldiers true and brave	S
Who are striving with heart and hand to save	S
The youths of our land from the deep dark grave	S
That the foe is digging by day and by night	E
Only	N
one thing	T
can defeat the Right	E
There is nothing but triumph for us unless	U
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Dissension	C
that crafty foe to success	U
Creeps into our ranks Oh let us	V
unite	E
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Let heart beat with heart as we enter the fight	E
Let the whole mighty army be	N
one	C
for the time	W
And sweep on the foe in a column sublime	W
In its unity earnestness oneness and might	E
Till the foe stands aghast at the wonderful sight	E
Till the enemy cowers and shivers afraid	X
Of the awful approach of the grand cavalcade	X
Close up the ranks brothers sisters draw near	Y
We are fighting one fight we are all kinsmen here	Z
Closer still closer in nearness lies might	E
Love is our watchword on to the fight	E

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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