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the circling year rolls on

O'er our northern region,

Comes the day that gave the crown

To the Theban Legion:

Equinoctial was that day,

As the world believed it;

Everlasting was its ray,

As that band received it.

They had light that knew no end,

Chiefs of ancient story,

That the sun illumined not,

But diviner glory;