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“Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!”
— Joseph Rouget de L'Isle
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song
Confidence:
0.85
Indexed:
2026-07-04
Hash:
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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