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" Come children of your country, come, New glory dawns upon the world, Our tyrants, rushing to their doom, Their crimson standard have unfurled. Already on our plains we hear The murmurs of a savage horde, They threaten with the murd'rous sword Your comrades and your children dear— Then up, and from your ranks the hireling foe withstand, March on, march on, his craven blood must fertilize the land."
So popular had the song become that every-body seemed imbued with the idea that they had had a hand in its composition. According to that curious work " An Englishman in Paris," not only did de Lisle not write the whole of his song—the Abbe Pessoneaux during the Reign of Terror declared he wrote the last strophe of the lyric—but, it is said, he had stolen the music, note for note, during the period he was writing the song when a prisoner in the fortress of St. Jean, at least three years after de Lisle really had been inspired with the whole composition ! It is Boucher—Alexandre Boucher, a well-known eccentric violinist, who vowed, says the author of " An Englishman in Paris," that he, Boucher, had written it for the colonel of a regiment who was about to leave Marseilles the next day. I give it, says the writer of the work I have just referred to: "In the very words of Boucher
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