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. Arise ye starvelings from your slumbers
Arise ye criminals of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last, ends the age of "can't"Now away with all your superstitions,
Servile masses arise, arise!
We'll change forthwith the old conditions
And spurn the dust to win the prize!
Then, comrades come rally
And the last fight let us face.
The Internationaleunites the human race.2. No Saviours from on high deliver,
No faith have we in prince or peer.
Our right hand the chains of must shiver,
Chains of hatred, greed, and fear.
Ere the thieves will out with their booty
And to all give a happier lot,
Each at the forge must do his duty,
And strike the iron while it's hot!
3. We peasants, artisans, and others
Enrolled among the sons of toil,
Let's claim the earth henceforth for brothers,
Drive the indolent from the soil.
On our flesh too long has fed the raven,
We've too long been the vulture's prey.
But now farewell the spirit craven,
The dawn brings in a brighter day.