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As for us, the sole pretension suited to our birth and years,

Is with resolute intention, as determined volunteers,

To defend our fields and altars, as our fathers did before;

Claiming as a recompense this easy boon, and nothing more:

When our trials with peace are ended, not to view us with malignity,

When we're curried, sleek and pampered, prancing in our pride and dignity." —(F.)