ONLY ONE.
Only one! Yet one may be
Sometimes welcome, where
Valor needs to strike one blow,
Faith to breathe one prayer.
Yet it is not much, I know,
When the work is done;
Standing high or standing low,
'Twill be only one.
Only one! When some must die
For the weal of all,
Matters it where life's last sigh
Breaks its earthly thrall?
To the length of mortal breath
Though a life be spun,
Freezing on the lip of death,
'Twill be only one.
For the weal of all,
Matters it where life's last sigh
Breaks its earthly thrall?
To the length of mortal breath
Though a life be spun,
Freezing on the lip of death,
'Twill be only one.
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