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Once to every man and nation
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide
in the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side
Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight
and the choice goes by forever, twixt that darkness and that light
Then to side with truth is noble when we share her wretched crust
ere her cause bring fame and profit and tis prosperous to be just
Then it is the brave man chooses while the coward stands aside
till the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied ...