You put the woven substance in a ruck.
I leave the issue of a war with them.
They shall not be assailed, nor may they have
Conflict with me unless they first aggress
The government.
Second Phantom
Oh, then they must withdraw
Resistance to your plan.
First Phantom
Well, I confess
No open plan, as yet. But now attend:
I have an oath in heaven registered
The Union to preserve, protect, defend;
They have no oath the Union to destroy.
Second Phantom
What is the Union but a verbal toy
Like Justice, Beauty, Liberty or Truth?
And as for them they need not take an oath,
They need but act.
First Phantom
The Union is unbroken, is a pact
Which cannot be erased or torn apart
By less than half of those who gave it breath.
Second Phantom