The following pro-democracy song appeared in Hugh Williams’s National Songs and Poetical Pieces (1839). The identity of the author is now lost to history but their work has been transcribed by Stephen Basdeo for this Reynolds’s News and Miscellany.

Hurrah! Hurrah! we are winning now!

We escape the night of ages;

Hurrah! Hurrah! we are winning now,

As the glow we feel presages.

And Knowledge and Truth shall fly o’er the world

On the wings of the wind they shall fly!

And Freedom, her banner for ever unfurl’d,

Will light Earth with her glorious eye:

Hurrah! Hurrah! if the strife was hard,

How mighty the hope that spurr’d us!

And where now is the spell our course to retard,

Since both Earth and Heaven have heard us?

And Knowledge and Truth shall fly o’er the world

On the wings of the wind they shall fly;

And Freedom, her banner for ever unfurl’d,

Will light earth with her glorious eye!