Oh! hear ye the Watchword of Labour!
The slogan of they who\u2019d be free;
That no more to any enslaver,
must Labour bend suppliant knee.
That we on whose shoulders are borne,
the pomp and the pride of the great;
Whose toil they repay with their scorn,
must challenge and master our fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chorus<\/em>: Aye! we who oft won by our valour, Chorus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then out from the field and the city, Chorus<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Watchword of Labour Oh! hear ye the Watchword of Labour!The slogan of they who\u2019d be free;That no more to any enslaver,must Labour bend suppliant knee.That we on whose shoulders are borne,the pomp and the pride of the great;Whose toil they repay with their scorn,must challenge and master our fate. Chorus:Then send it aloft on the…<\/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-342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matandyvonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Then send it aloft on the breeze boys!
That watchword the grandest we\u2019ve known
That Labour must rise from ist knees boys!
And claim the broad earth as its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Empire for our Rulers and Lords;
Yet knelt in abasement and squalor,
tot he thing weh ad made by our swords.
Now valour with worth will be blending,
when answering Labour\u2019s command;
We arise from our knees, and ascending,
to manhood for freedom take stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
from workshop, from mill and from mine;
Despising their wrath and their pity,
we workers are moving in line.
To answer the watchword and token,
that labour gives forth as its own;
Nor pause till our fetters we’ve broken,
and conquered the spoiler and drone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n