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Marie Antoinette

by Service, Robert William

...our pity wait."
But Marie only laughed and said:
 "My heart they will not ache:
If people starve for want of bread
 Let them eat cake."

The Court re-echoed her bon mot;
 It rang around the land,
Till masses wakened from their woe
 With scyth and pick in hand.
It took a careless, callous phrase
 To rouse the folk forlorn:
A million roared the Marseillaise:
 Freedom was born.

And so to Marie Antoinette
 Let's pay a tribute due;
Humanity owes her a debt,
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