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Gone are those days of caste-born pride.
Gone is the foreigner’s might:

Gone is passive subservience
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Gone is the trickster’s sway. 8
Freedom is our universal speech,
Equality the experienced grace;
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We’ll blow the conch of victory
And publish the truth to all. 12

We see that all are equal born;
Now lie and deceit are dead;

Only the good men are great –
Ruin has seized and wicked. 16

Honour to the ploughman and the worker!

Shame to the glutton and the rake!
We’ll not water the wastelands,
Nor sweat for the idler’s weal! 20

We’ve learnt that this is our own land,

It will be forever ours;
No nation shall enslave us again;
We’ll prosper serving God, our sole Lord. 24

Glossary

blissful : extremely happy and peaceful

subservience : a state in which you do whatever someone
else wants you to do

trickster’s sway : power or influence of one who deceives or
cheats people

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