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 "id": "mary-weston-fordham/rally-song",
 "title": "Rally Song",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Mary Weston Fordham",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Magnolia Leaves",
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 "sequence": 37,
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  "year": 1897,
  "venue": "Magnolia Leaves (1897)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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   {
    "text": "Come, let us join this festal lay⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Hurra, Hurra,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Come, let us join this festal lay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And let our anthems all be gay,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And sing aloud for this glad day",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Should brighten every heart:⁠—",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "We’ll sing of heroes who have fought⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hurra, Hurra,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We’ll sing of heroes who have fought,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Who to their country’s altar brought,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And on her sacred ensign wrought,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The tree of liberty.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "We’ll sing of martyrs who have died⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Hurra, Hurra,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We’ll sing of martyrs who have died,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From severed ranks, as side by side",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They bravely stemmed the gory tide.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To ransom brother man.",
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   }
  ],
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   {
    "text": "Our glorious banner’s now unfurled⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Hurra, Hurra,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Our glorious banner’s now unfurled,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "May it soon wave o’er all the world,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And every traitor standard hurled",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From pinnacle to earth.",
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   }
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   {
    "text": "With gifted leaders in our van⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Hurra, Hurra,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With gifted leaders in our van,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The bright and noblest of our land,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Let patriots shout, as, hand in hand,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "They welcome this glad day.",
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