/p><p id="2c26">Fit — fit — fit; clash!</p><p id="2d3b">Laugh at it no longer, when the odd shapes beckon the old</p><p id="9f17">And young into the sights of civil war.</p><p id="93b0">The wistful, the deep and lick in it;</p><p id="d1d3">Too potent to protest, when one cycles thro’</p><p id="486a">Their foolish lapses of persuasion for the awful right</p><p id="498d">That folds down on us now, to cease us worthy to</p><p id="d7e7">Our intellectual of forceful sight.</p><p id="0987">O; laden the cheat, flat as the ground, whence the Heros behaved</p><p id="672d">Now the faucets of time commence them to intimate slaughter.</p><p id="70dd">Rip line, and hold too fondly, the stealing burdens of war!</p><p id="058f">O; Hero, there is naught for one to do, in the closing tides</p><p id="a657">That bide all man to the burdensome actions of iron fisting and</p><p id="ce0d">Gabbling magniloquence on the mark; before the sight, right there,</p><p id="f2d2">On the steel, on this hill, before the battle.</p><p id="abc3">Riddle that hero this, and will his lines of truthfulness fold?</p><p id="8e4e">If the stripes that rue his scorn are true, will he not behead</p><p id="1297">His now-turned-foe;</p><p id="ec38">If it is true — if it could be true, I hope he will not.</p><p id="1dfd">To so quickly turn on our loyalties; to hinge on our faith in another, is one</p><p id="9ff6">Of the most hurting fads to live through; and been through once before…</p><p id="16ff">This is all I could fear —</p><p id="3ccf">Tug — Tug — brittle thing!</p><p id="353c">All that I could, now. It is the evenings' garb, fit to be passed,</p><p id="46bf">And the unbearable measure of weight, for the eyeing passage</p><p id="1729">Of this, hung heavily over me, is almost total.</p><p id="f4de">Wait, and they will not —</p><p id="6125">Go, and they shall;</p><p id="b12b">Both so foolish, yet I can gleam it so</p><p id="4900">Quickly in my mind; it's almost too perfect,</p><p id="c539">Yet so bitter — so bitter, it must be the consumption</p><p id="d9d6">Of my eager hopes, that they will not.</p><p id="edeb">He shall die, whilst another shall not;</p><p id="6340">To whatever injury, to whatever ends.</p><p id="f479">I commit and remain to the etching toil</p><p id="96c9">Just awhile longer —</p><p id="c518">Day to be the bridge that is quickly</p><p id="927e">Sprang across tonight;</p><p id="d068">I am committed</p><p id="6430">To the seconds;</p><p id="2385">By the hour —</p><p id="7d42">Per the view,</p><p id="63ed">Till the awful sunrise is met,</p><p id="a091">Over the nightfall —</p><p id="b3c3">So it goes… [<i>Snickers</i>] Whilst there, the startled doves go overhead…</p><p id="8f29">And this continuation of our hopes and fears</p><p id="8d51">Are to be then thusly diminished on that opened field;</p><p id="297a">Killed right there, it seems.</p><p id="a447">Wherein, the fates screech the fifth, and the minor fall</p><p id="1157">Commanding whichever hero whom than shall arise,</p><p id="c58d">Whilst the other one darned to the earthly intercourse,</p><p id="ab74">Remains righteous evermore, and we to abide</p><p id="eb81">By that ruling.</p><p id="1dd3">That is the moment I speak of, my daughter.</p><p id="37d3">Just that then, when it beckons itself to pass.</p><p id
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