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When the Empire expires Like the other ones before it This empire too will expire Like cold, impotent ash After the haughty, unbearable blaze Read Also: Guterres to
When the Empire expires
Like the other ones before it
This empire too will expire
Like cold, impotent ash
After the haughty, unbearable blaze
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The incorrigible imp in all things imperial
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Will scramble back to their native jungle
As crashing castles unearth the chains
Which imperil the movement for human freedom
Some eulogize the legacy of an old Empire
Where the sun never set
Some pay ardent homage to a dominion
Of a million unequal tongues
But give me an empire without
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Its cargo of skulls
And I will show you hell
Without its quenchless fires
And the Emperor whose crown demands
The greediest gold and hungriest diamond
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Commander-in-Thief of stolen lands and stolen peoples
He who is Law, Supreme and Total
Who wields the sword to which
A million necks must bow
Too blind, too dim to know the eternal verity
That all empires inevitably expire
