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I have listened to the sighing of the burdened and the bound, / I have heard it change to crying, with a menace in the sound; / I have seen the money-getters pass unheeding on the way, / As they went to forge new fetters for the people day by day.
Then the voice of Labour thundered forth its purpose and its need, / And I marvelled, and I wondered, at the cold dull ear of greed; / For as chimes, in some great steeple, tell the passing of the hour, / So the voices of the people tell the death of purchased power.