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to danger we have been,

Walking on our wonted ways

Through the drifting of the days,

In and out, and out and in,

To our patriot duty stranger,

Wandering as in a maze,

Blind to danger!

Deaf to danger, and our need,

We have drunken to the lees

Of the druggèd wine of ease;

To our honor given no heed,

Paltered, played the money-changer;

Cast aside old memories,

Deaf to danger!