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A man must live. We justify / Low shift and trick to treason high, / A little vote for a little gold / To a whole senate bought and sold, / By that self-evident reply.
But is it so? Pray tell me why / Life at such cost you have to buy? / In what religion were you told / A man must live?
There are times when a man must die. / Imagine, for a battle-cry, / From soldiers, with a sword to hold,- / From soldiers, with the flag unrolled,- / This coward's whine, this liar's lie,- / A man must live!