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Of toil and blood the well-earn’d prize.

While offering peace sincere and just,

In Heaven we place a manly trust,

That truth and justice will prevail,

And every scheme of bondage fail.

Firm—united, etc.

Sound, sound the trump of Fame!

Let Washington’s great name

Ring through the world with loud applause,

Ring through the world with loud applause;