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Once to God we owed it all,- / God alone; / Bowing in eternal thrall, / Giving, sacrificing all, / Before the Throne.
Once we owed it to the King,- / Served the crown; / Life, and love, and everything, / In allegiance to the King, / Laying down.
Now we owe it to Mankind,- / To our Race; / Fullest fruit of soul and mind, / Heart and hand and all behind, / Now in place.
Loving-service, wide and free, / From the sod / Up in varying degree, / Through me and you-through you and me- / Up to God!