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In Service To Peace [Orignal Version]

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Strong and free.
To infinity and beyond.
Always ready, do or die!

To meet the world with open arms.
Stay our swords and lower our shields.
To make our foes into allies.

It is good to die for one's country.
Carried by our shields and by our fathers.
In a world unchanged.

The wise man works for one's country.
As artists and teachers.
As leaders and heroes.

Man has been lent this life, not given.
It does not last.
Else we shall meet in the next.

We should not falter in this life.
Be open to kindness, that we shall die in peace.
As thus we lived.

Strong and free.
To infinity and beyond.
Always ready, do or die!

A young man's homage to a world unchanged.
That our fathers see unknowing.
Be the change that we desire.

A man's heart unwilling.
To see a world that must be changed.
To fight in his Father’s wars and bleed in far off lands.
To meet the world unseen.

It is good that man is lent this life.
That he can be the change he seeks.
To change a world of war into one of love.
To be the man of peace this world needs.

In service to Peace!

In this world, as the next!
This is the original version of my newest poem, In Service to Peace.

The other version, which I like very much, has already been translated into Latin, and will be used in a song I'll post on MuseScore when its ready.

Be sure to tell me what you think, as this piece is the original anthem to my nation of Pacem, for Civ V BNW, as well as the sketchup nation I'm building.
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