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FOR THE RIGHT by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER

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First Line: FOR THE RIGHT! AS GOD HAS GIVEN
Last Line: ARE FOUND BY MINERS DARK IN EARTH.
"For the Right! as God has given
Man to see the Maiden Right!"
For the Right, through thickest night,
Till the man-brute Wrong be driven
From high places; till the Right
Shall lift like some grand beacon light.
For the Right! Love, Right and Duty;
Lift the world up, though you fall
Heaped with dead before the wall;
God can find a soul of beauty
Where it falls, as gems of worth
Are found by miners dark in earth.



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