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Oh the Kings of earth have mobilised their men. / See them moving, valour proving, / To the fields of glory going, / Banners flowing, bugles blowing, / Every one a mother's son, / Brave with uniform and gun, / Keeping step with easy swing, / Yes, with easy step and light marching onward to the fight, / Just to please the warlike fancy of a King; / Who has mobilised his army for the strife.
Oh the King of Death has mobilised his men. / See the hearses huge and black / How they rumble down the track; / With their coffins filled with dead, / Filled with men who fought and bled; / Now from fields of glory coming / To the sound of muffled drumming / They are lying still and white, / But the Kings have had their fight; / Death has mobilised his army for the grave.