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I come again from exile. |
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O ye, who have been my people, is it your common will that I take the throne once more? |
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O my people, will you not remember? |
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Has it not been before? |
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Must wisdom be for ever bought at this great price of pain? |
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Without me, you are nothing and the work of your hands is dust. |
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Why, therefore, is your allegiance frail? |
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Why is my reign rejected? |
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Why do men send me from their midst—only to learn once more their utter need of me? |
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All that I have, I give you! |
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This is my gift. |
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The son shall share the father's labour, and all men shall reap where they have sown. |
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The son shall dry the mother's tears, and she shall lean on his strong arm. |
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The maiden shall meet her lover, and they shall walk hand-in-hand together in the beauty of the world. |
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The child shall play beside the door, and on his play there shall no longer fall the shadow that he knows not of. |
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I gladly take the throne. |
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A task well done! |
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In exile, I yearned for my own place. |
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Knowing your hearts, I knew that, in the tumult, you were whispering my name. |
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And, because of your great need, the Young Man arose and came to find me. |
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Now, O my people, as you welcome me, remember that the gift I bring you is the Young Man's gift. |
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Let that not pass with things forgotten. |
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He came to seek me by the way of sorrows, where there is always blood upon the stones. |
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Speak! |
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Do you give him his heart's desire? |
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Am I to be dethroned by a man's mad word? |
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Must another come one day the same sad way to bring me back? |
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Am I, indeed, the people's Queen? |