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Normale Version: The One And The Many
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The One And The Many


Not with our foemen's bond of fear and force
Our lives are one, nor by the dull decree
That lops each golden shoot of liberty
And checks the soul exulting in her course,
But we are one because at life's full source
Our lips have drunk, and all our ways are free,
And the high troth our spirit plights to Thee
Is glad and strong and knoweth not remorse.

Many our laws, therefore our Law is one,
Our tongues are legion, hence the Voice we hear
Hath no strait idiom, void of living soul,
But cries as joy 'neath every clime and sun
Offering for fetters, love that casts out fear,
For hatred, strength and peace from pole to pole.