Come shake out your banners, and forth to the fight
Joy, joy to our heart that this day we have seen,
When the war-flags of Labour, saluting the light, of
Freedom for mankind, around us doth stream
Oh, the tyrants may quake lest the blood they have poured
O\u2019er the fields of the earth their crowns to be-gem,
May rise to our thoughts as we unsheathe the sword
(and) harden our hearts \u2019gainst the spoilers of men<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chorus:<\/em> Ay the sword glitters grandly, but not as of yore, when Shake Out Your Banners Come shake out your banners, and forth to the fightJoy, joy to our heart that this day we have seen,When the war-flags of Labour, saluting the light, ofFreedom for mankind, around us doth streamOh, the tyrants may quake lest the blood they have pouredO\u2019er the fields of the earth their crowns…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"nosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-335","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/335\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Shake out your banners
Shake out your banners<\/p>\n\n\n\n
brother smote brother in murderous feud,
Or the nod of a tyrant rushed nations to war,
And hopes of our race were o\u2019erwhelmed in blood
Nay, the fight that we fight is a fight for our own, and
Freedom for Labour our war\u2019s tocsin shall be,
Through the broad earth resounding, till Capital\u2019s throne
Lies shatterd for aye, and the toiler is free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"