The 12Th Of July

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Come pledge again your heart and your hand
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One grasp that never will sever
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Our password be our native land
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Our motto, love forever
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And let the orange lily be
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Your badge, my patriot brother
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It's the everlasting green for me
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And we for one another

[Verse]
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Behold how green the gallant stem
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On which the flower is blooming
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How in one heavenly breeze and beam
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Both flower and stem are glowing
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The same good soil sustaining both
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Makes both united flourish
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But cannot give the orange growth
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And cease the green to nourish

[Verse]
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The more the hand that plucks that flower
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Will vainly strive to cherish
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In that hour the stem blooms on
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The flower, it begins to perish
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Regard them then of equal worth
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While last their genial weather
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The time's at hand when deep in earth
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They will both sink together

[Verse]
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And though it be in our country's cause
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Our party feelings blended
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'Til lasting peace from equal laws
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On both will have descended
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'Til then the orange lily be
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Your badge, my patriot brother
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It's the everlasting green for me
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And we for one another
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And we for one another