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When a dark and fearful strife / Raged around the nation's life, / And the traitor plunged his steel / Where your quivering hearts could feel, / When your cause did need a friend, / We were faithful to the end.
When we stood with bated breath, / Facing fiery storms of death, / And the war-cloud, red with wrath, / Fiercely swept around our path, / Did our hearts with terror quail?