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An Age Anew


Once we were praised
Once we knew enduring memory
But now
Our descent begins.
 
Raise high one more time the tattered standard
Of the Fallen. See through the drifting smoke
To the dark stains upon the fabric.
 
This is the blood of our lives, this is the
Payment of our deeds, all soon to be
Forgotten.
 
We were never what people could be.
We were only what we were.
Remember us.
 
And now the page before us blurs.
An age is done. The book must close.
We are abandoned to history.
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