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AS IT was in the beginning, so we'll find it in the end, / For a lover, or a brother, or a sweetheart, or a friend; / As it was in the beginning, so we'll find it by-and-bye, / When weak women hug their babies, and strong men go out to die.
As 'tis written now, or spoken, so we'll find it yet in deed -- / For their State, or for their Country, for their Honour or their Creed; / For the love of Right, or hatred for the Everlasting Lie, / When the women think of some things, and strong men go out to die.
As it used to be in past times, in the future so it must, / We shall find him stretching forward with his face down in the dust, / All his wounds in front, and hidden -- blood to earth, and back to sky, / When pale women pray in private, and strong men go out to die.
Rebels all we are, and brothers -- rebels to the laws we make -- / Rich or poor, or fat or lean man, fighting for another's sake; / It is all as God decreed it -- we shall find it by-and-bye, / When our girls, disguised in boys' clothes, go to die where strong men / die.