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To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe! March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!
To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe! March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!
Approximate author period: c. 1760 AD · early modern
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- Joseph Rouget De L'Isle
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- Approximate author period: c. 1760 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Marseilles Hymn.
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