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in doing good is victorious forever.

ChorusI pray that discord, greedy for evil, may never clamor in this city, and may the dust not drinkthe black blood of its people and through passion cause ruinous murder for vengeance to the destruction of the state.The expression of the thought take reprisals in a civil war, is overloaded and the grammatical relation of the words is involved. More exactly: seize greedily (as a wild beast seizes his prey) upon calamities—of vengeance—to the State, calamities in which blood is shed in requital for blood.