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Rightly.

Perhaps.

We get no thanks.

We strip the men for troops abroad

And leave the women and the slaves

For merchants and their kind. The graves

Of half each province line the road.

These people could not stand a day

Against the tribes, with us away.

Rightly.

Perhaps.

Here comes the Chief.