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Mistress of the Trident dread, / With the brow of Artemis, / Like Minerva, helmeted, / Seven Seas her sandals kiss.
Throbs a mighty heart withal / Beneath her armour of Disdain. / Not for naught did Belgium call, / Servia has not cried in vain.
When the gauge of Hate was hurled, / Seven seas at her behest, / From the corners of the world / Brought the bravest and the best.
From the utmost ends of earth, / On their tireless waves they bore, / To the Europe of their birth, / Legions of the land and air,
Spurning Peace, till Peace has brought / Hohenzollern to his fall, / And with the blood of Freemen bought / A Place in Freedom's Sun for all.