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The Women’s Marseillaise
The Women’s Marseillaise
Arise! ye daughters of a land
That vaunts its liberty!
May restless rulers understand
That women must be free
That women will be free.
Hark! hark! the trumpet’s calling!
Who’d be a laggard in the fight?
With vict’ry even now in sight
And stubborn foemen backward falling
To Freedom’s cause till death
We swear our fealty.
March on! March on! Face to the dawn
The dawn of liberty.
March on! March on! Face to the dawn
The dawn of liberty.
Arise! Tho’ pain or loss betide
Grudge naught of freedom’s toll
For what they loved the martyrs died;
Are we of meaner soul?
Are we of meaner soul?
Our comrades greatly daring.
Thro’ prison bars have led the way:
Who would not follow to the fray,
Their glorious struggle proudly sharing?
To Freedom’s cause till death
We swear our fealty.
March on! March on! Face to the dawn
The dawn of liberty.
March on! March on! Face to the dawn
The dawn of liberty
Words: Miss F.E.M. Macaulay
http://www.thesuffragettes.org/resources/anthems/