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The Big Deeds
We are done with little thinking and we’re done with little deeds,
We are done with petty conduct and we’re done with narrow creeds;
We have grown to men and women, and we’ve noble work to do,
And today we are a people with a larger point of view.
In a big way we must labor, if our flag shall always fly,
In a big way some must suffer, in a big way some must die.
There must be no little dreaming in the visions that we see,
There must be no selfish planning in the joys that are to be;
We have set our faces eastward to the rising of the sun
That shall light a better nation, and there’s big work to be done.
And the petty souls and narrow, seeking only selfish gain,
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