For the Right

For the Right

We stand here together, with courage and will,

Resolved the right cause to maintain;

With hearts true and constant, whatever may come,

We firm as the rocks will remain.

For the fight! for the right! here unflinching we stand;
I pledge you the word, and I reach you the hand.

An aim and a purpose be formed in each heart,

Which yet must awake in their might,

To raise the degraded, relieve the oppressed,

And fearlessly stand for the right.

For the right! for the right! here unflinching we stand;
So pledge me the word, and so reach me the hand.

No fear, no self-seeking must enter our band,

No question of evil report;

All nations, all people, of every land,

To us must be brothers in heart.

For the right! for the right! all unflinching we stand,
Here pledge we the word, and here join we the hand.

Unattributed

1:8, p. 1

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