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1. Come, my tan-faced children, / Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; / Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes? / Pioneers! O pioneers!
2. For we cannot tarry here, / We must march, my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, / We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend. / Pioneers! O pioneers!