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Workmen's March

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(See Note 74)     Left foot! Right foot! Lines unbroken!     Keeping time is power's token.     That makes one of many, many,     That makes bold, if fear daunts any,     That makes small the load and lighter,     That makes near the goal and brighter,     Till it greets us gained with laughter,     And we seek the next one after.     Left foot! Right foot! Lines unbroken!     Keeping time is power's token.     Marching, marching of few hundreds,     No one heeds it, never one dreads;     Marching, marching of few thousands,     Here and there wakes some to hearing;     Marching, marching hundred thousands, -     All will mark that thunder nearing.     Left foot! Right foot! Lines unbroken!     Keeping time is power's token.     Let us march all, never weaken     Time from Vard down to Viken,     Vinger up to Bergen's region, -     Let us make one marching legion,     Then we'll rout some wrong from Norway,     Open wide to right the doorway.

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