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More Songs by the Fighting Men This is the desire

Which burns the fuel of my soul.

O terrible white fire!

Leaping to blister the sky.

Beyond my sight;

Ever reaching higher;

My strength and my delight;

Oh out of my control!

This is my desire.

And So Man Lives

ND so man lives

Between those shadowy gates

Where darkness covers up his memory,

And thought with thought forever separates

The disconnected things that he can see.

Those two strange steeps:

One whence he wakes,

And how he cannot tell;

One in which he falls

And knows not how he fell,

Where life with memory breaks.

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