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WILL sing a song of battle

Planned in days long passed and over.

Men of skill and science set it

On a plain of eight divisions,

And designed in squares all chequered.

Two camps face each one the other,

And the kings stand by for battle,

And twixt these two is the fighting.

Bent on war the face of each is,

Ever moving or encamping,

Yet no swords are drawn in warfare,

For a war of thoughts their war is.

They are known by signs and tokens

Sealed and written on their bodies;

And a man who sees them, thinketh,

Edomites and Ethiopians