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"Ours is a Christian Army"; so he said / A regiment of bangomen who led. / "And ours a Christian Navy," added he / Who sailed a thunder-junk upon the sea.
Better they know than men unwarlike do / What is an army and a navy, too.
Pray God there may be sent them by-and-by / The knowledge what a Christian is, and why.
For somewhat lamely the conception runs / Of a brass-buttoned Jesus firing guns.