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*Alas, t'is true, the bell soon tolls,
For thee and those who tarry,
As many a mind and heart will flee,
Worried, worn and wary—*

*Tho just as many sing in triumph,
"See thee on the other side!"
These have all longed for this day
To turn the malignant tide.*

*To free themselves from mine's dark shadow,
Which chains have held them fast,
To the unproven plains of the unknown,
To govern themselves at last.*

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*If not for thy new master,
whose reach was too far to bear,
These may have lingered to salvage
Thy promise once long and fair.*

*The camel's back, as it goes,
T'was broken with fate's final straw,
So there's little to do but mourn thy loss,
And let go the bitter maw—*

*That once rejoiced with welcome,
To all who entered in
With hopes and dreams of futures bright—
For all their kith and kin.*

*But now hath utterly turned to spite,
And doth spit on all held dear,
And tread like heathen underfoot
the good that happened here.*

*Sometimes our choices come with costs—
the frying pan or the fire,
But freedom's ring is sound and sure,
While bondage, dank and dire.*

*Will we succeed? Will we fail?
He'll tell us, Father Time,
While in the mean, we will march on,
To fife and drum and rhyme.*

*Better to fail and fall as free,
Then follow one man's folly.
Only to parry for everlasting
Each feint and taunt and volley.*

*So, Fare Thee Well, Sweet Lady STEEM,
No time for fear or sorrow,
For a new beginning in the HIVE
Awaits on the morrow!*

*With us on wings thou shalt be borne,
For STEEM is not a place,
But dwells in the minds, hearts and souls
Of all who doth sovereignty chase.*

*For in the end, when all is done
And justice doth her verdict decree,
We will not have forsaken freedom's light
For tyranny's treachery.*

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#### Onward and upward.

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