- Arise! ye starvelings, from your slumbers;
- Arise! ye criminals of want.
- For Reason in revolt now thunders,
- And ends at last the age of cant.
- Now away with all superstitions.
- Servile masses, arise! arise!
- We'll change forthwith the old conditions,
- And spurn the dust to win the prize.
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- Then comrades, come rally,
- And the last fight let us face.
- The Internationale
- Unites the human race.
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- We peasants, artisans, and others
- Enrolled among the sons of toil,
- Let's claim the earth henceforth for brothers,
- Drive the indolent from the soil!
- On our flesh too long has fed the raven;
- We've too long been the vulture's prey.
- But now farewell the spirit craven:
- The dawn brings in a brighter day.
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- Then comrades, come rally,
- And the last fight let us face.
- The Internationale
- Unites the human race.
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- No saviour from on high delivers;
- No trust have we in prince or peer.
- Our own right hand the chains must shiver:
- Chains of hatred, greed, and fear.
- Ere the thieves will out with their booty
- And to all give a happier lot,
- Each at his forge must do his duty
- And strike the iron while it's hot!
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- Then comrades, come rally,
- And the last fight let us face.
- The Internationale
- Unites the human race.
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- Debout! les damne's de la terre!
- Debout! les forc,at, de la faim!
- La raison tonne en son crate`re,
- C'est l'e'ruption de la fin.
- Du passe' faisons table rase,
- Foule esclave, debout! debout!
- Le monde va changer de base:
- Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout!
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- C'est la lutte finale:
- Groupons nous, et demain
- L'Internationale
- Sera le genre humain.
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- Il n'est pas de sauveurs supre^mes:
- Ni Dieu, ni Ce'sar, ni tribun.
- Producteurs, sauvons-nous nous-me^mes,
- Decre'tons le salut commun!
- Pour que le voleur rende gorge,
- Pour tirez l'esprit du cachot,
- Soufflons nous-me^mes notre forge,
- Batton le fer quand il est chaud!
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- C'est la lutte finale:
- Groupons nous, et demain
- L'Internationale
- Sera le genre humain.
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- Ouvriers, paysans, nous sommes
- Le grand parti des travailleurs;
- La terre n'appartient qu'aux hommes,
- L'oisif ira loger ailleurs.
- Combien de nos chairs se repaissent!
- Mais si les corbeaux, les vautours,
- Un de ces matins disparaissent,
- Le soleil brillera toujours!
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- C'est la lutte finale:
- Groupons nous, et demain
- L'Internationale
- Sera le genre humain.
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