How in all time of our distress,

And in our triumph too,

The game is more than the player of the game,

And the ship is more than the crew!

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THE OUTLAWS

1914

Through learned and laborious years

They set themselves to find

Fresh terrors and undreamed-of fears

To heap upon mankind.

All that they drew from Heaven above

Or digged from earth beneath,

They laid into their treasure-trove

And arsenals of death:

While, for well-weighed advantage sake,

Ruler and ruled alike

Built up the faith they meant to break

When the fit hour should strike.

They traded with the careless earth,

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