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To Tsars and kings / who tax the world, / Send dollars and ducats, / And fetters well-forged.
To toiling heads and toiling hands, / Laboring on these stolen lands / Endurance and strength.
To me, my God, on this sad earth, / Give me but love, / the heart's paradise / And nothing more.