taking up arms

\"Taking Up Arms\"

( © 2001 ) `

War is come upon us,
imposing our timid nation
to rise up and take arms.

I will march off along
with the rest of your sons
to that sea of blood,

Supplied by the rivers
of our throbbing wounds;
while honour and patriotism
collide in barbaric swill -

Tearing open our bodies
in those fields of hate
in that cold strange land.
This war is not our own;

We did not ask for this.
But as sons of our Fatherland,
we march off to war -
to fill that crimson sea.






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