AVENGE
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Avenge! Avenge! Great sword of God, The massacre of these Ten thousand Polish soldier lads, All hung from gallows’ trees. Send down Thy angels armed with fire, Send down Thy fiery lake, Avenge the tortured, fiercely marred, And killed for killing’s sake, Brave prisoners of Guam, Bataan, Corregidor, and Wake! O hasten, hasten, wrath of God! Five times five thousand slain In one red week of murderous lust, New Christs, new cross, new pain! Our patience and our mercy wait While they who slaughter don’t. Annihilate! Annihilate! We’ll do it if You won’t!