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'Tis noble for to fight for home, / But some nations fight to plunder, / For conquest o'er the world to roam, / To tear peaceful lands asunder.
For to give wealth and a great name / To some aspiring commander, / Who wishes to acquire great fame / As a modern Alexander.
Statesmen and kings a war will wage, / And many thousands strew the plain, / Covered with gore in the carnage, / Where brave and noble men are slain.
Leaving their families to mourn, / Now who can soothe the ills of life, / To them they never shall return, / No one can now cheer the poor wife.
Or the sweet little orphans dear / Think of father and of mother, / Of sweetheart, sister and of brother, / Who oft will shed the fruitless tear.