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Our Fathers in a wondrous age, / Ere yet the earth was small, / Ensured to us an heritage, / And doubted not at all / That we, the children of their heart, / Which then did beat so high, / In later time should play like part / For our posterity.
A thousand years they steadfast built, / To 'vantage us and ours, / The Walls that were a world's despair, / The sea-constraining Towers: / Yet in their midmost pride they knew, / And unto Kings made known, / Not all from these their strength they drew, / Their faith from brass or stone.