When to Fight

When men beneath a yoke of kings

Pass all their lives in thrall.

And dare not think of liberty

Lest to despair they fall;


When lords aloft in castles great

Send forth their men to wars,

And care they not what be their fate

Beyond the palace doors;


When freedom’s light still burns beyond

The mist of tyranny,

Tis duty’s call, to break such bonds,

And fight for liberty.


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