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How blest a thing it is to die / For Country's sake, as bards have sung! / How sweet "pro patria mori," / (To quote the vulgar Latin tongue); / And yet to him the palm we give / Who for his fatherland can "live".
Historians have explained to us, / In terms that never can grow cold, / How well the bold Horatius / Played bridge in the brave days of old; / And we can read of hosts of others, / From Spartan boys to Roman mothers.