They can never think of dining, much less dare to talk of wining

Or they’d have the judges fining them and looking for their gore:

Wooden stocks, forevermore.

Oh, the country’s draped in mourning, black is everywhere adorning

All the houses in the land and crepe is seen on every door;

Hear the people softly crying for their Freedom that is lying

On its deathbed, slowly dying, sweating blood at every pore;

Freedom’s fled, forevermore.

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