This toll we pay
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f the slender, the fair,The bright and the gay!Gold and black crown,Body slim and taut,How they go down’Neath the juggernaut!Youth of the world,Like scythed wheat,How they are hurled 5 At the clay god’s feet!Hear them cry HolyTo stone and to steel,See them bend lowly,Loyal and leal, Blood rendered and bone,‘Possteeleandsto stone.They have forgotThe stars and the sun,The grassy plot,
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