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The men who man our batteries	A
The men who serve our guns	B
They need not honeyed flatteries	B
For they are Britain's sons	B
They go when Duty speeds them	C
Wherever bullets fly	D
Wherever England needs them	C
When Duty bids they die	D
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The men who man our strongholds	B
Or march to yonder field	E
Where Valour against Wrong holds	B
A realm that scorns to yield	E
From Chiltern Hills or Grampians	B
May pour their living tide	F
But all are England's champions	B
And all are England's pride	F
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And lo how the abhorrence	B
Of sceptred crime can join	G
The Thames and the St Lawrence	B
The Liffey and the Boyne	G
For England need but ask aid	H
Where'er her branches grow	I
And like a leaping cascade	H
It thunders on the foe	I
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Our cheery sailors lapt in	J
The maiden sea's light sleep	K
From commodore and captain	L
To all who man the deep	K
They hear around their bed nought	H
But echoes of their fame	M
And well they man the Dreadnought	H
Who dread not aught but shame	M
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And whether calmly harboured	H
Or when the rocking State	H
Lurches to port and starboard	H
They sail the seas of Fate	H
With everlasting laughter	N
They luff to wind and rain	O
Aforetime and hereafter	N
The men who man the main	O
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The men who man Great Britain	L
And fight for royal George	P
On battle's anvil smitten	L
Leap mightier from the forge	P
Like oaks in Orkney's rough spring	Q
They flourish torn and blown	R
For all are Honour's offspring	Q
And all are England's own	R
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The men who man this nation	L
And sow her fame abroad	H
They ask not acclamation	L
They need not England's laud	H
And when too late it finds them	C
And falls on lifeless ears	B
Where yon red tempest blinds them	C
They need but England's tears	B
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Yet while the storm grows vaster	N
Around them and above	S
In triumph or disaster	N
They shall not lack our love	S
They who to Glory's fanning	Q
This streamer have unfurled	H
The men whose joy is manning	Q
The men who man the world	H

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