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We left undecked no hamlet's little steeple
That loud with joy-bells rung;
And from the breasts of a too happy people
Its passion-flowers were hung.
We knew its language; knew our work was over;
And hailed, while ours we furled,
The only Flag whose sovereign folds shall cover
Henceforth our Western world.
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