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RESURGITE.
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RESURGITE!—JUNE, 1877.


NOW, for the faith that is in ye,
Polander, Sclav, and Kelt!
Prove to the world what the lips have hurled
The hearts have grandly felt.

Rouse, ye races in shackles!
See in the East, the glare
Is red in the sky, and the warning cry
Is sounding—"Awake! Prepare!"

A voice from the spheres—a hand downreached
To hands that would be free.
To rend the gyves from the fettered lives
That strain toward Liberty!
 
Circassia! the cup is flowing
That holdeth perennial youth: