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| THE BARONS bold on Runnymede | |
| By union won their charter; | |
| True men were they, prepar’d to bleed, | |
| But not their rights to barter: | |
| And they swore that England’s laws | 5 |
| Were above a tyrant’s word; | |
| And they prov’d that freedom’s cause | |
| Was above a tyrant’s sword: | |
| Then honor we | |
| The memory | 10 |
| Of those Barons brave united; | |
| And like their band, | |
| Join hand to hand: | |
| Our wrongs shall soon be righted. | |
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| The Commons brave, in Charles’s time, | 15 |
| By union made the Crown fall, | |
| And show’d the world how royal crime | |
| Should lead to royal downfall: | |
| And they swore that rights and laws | |
| Were above a monarch’s word; | 20 |
| And they raised the nation’s cause | |
| Above the monarch’s sword: | |
| Then honor we | |
| The memory | |
| Of those Commons brave, united; | 25 |
| And like their band, | |
| Join hand to hand: | |
| Our wrongs shall soon be righted. | |
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| The People firm, from Court and Peers, | |
| By union won Reform, sirs, | 30 |
| And, union safe, the nation steers | |
| Through sunshine and through storm, sirs: | |
| And we swear that equal laws | |
| Shall prevail o’er lordlings’ words, | |
| And can prove that freedom’s cause | 35 |
| Is too strong for hireling swords: | |
| Then honor we | |
| The victory | |
| Of the people brave, united; | |
| Let all our bands | 40 |
| Join hearts and hands: | |
| Our wrongs shall all be righted. | |
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