Verse 1
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I dare not tell you now
the feelings
that overwhelm
I dare not write
nor post
nor call.
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Verse 2
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I dare not tell you at all.
For you will intercede.
You will mount your chariot
and charge
slay the dragons
and fight all
who seek to harm.
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Verse 3
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You will surround me
with children's laughter
and hugs,
with a husband's
fond embrace
with friendship
and kinship
and every smiling face
to ensure I not fall
into the adversary's snare
nor lose this battle
nor lose this race
which I have not strength
to run, nor win.
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Verse 4
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But still I call
and beckon to you
to all in many ways
for you know how
my spirits to always raise.
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Verse 5
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Thus we learn it is not
just the strength
to run the race
or to even win
it is who we are
and you are who we need.
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Verse 6
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So mount your chariot
and draw your sword
evil dragons slay
for quit is the word
you want me
not to say.
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Verse 7
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Then you will see
who dares to enter in
to another's space
of life and love
to be to them
what they cannot
ever pretend to be.
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Verse 8
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For Father counts
on us to help one another
where one is weak
the other
He made strong.
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Verse 9
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And He reminds
one and all
there is no race
but a probation
to pass the test of ourself
without the comparison
to another;
to fulfill our mission
and leave the adversary
on the way
to murmur and bemoan
all he could've been
had he the agency
again to decide.
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Verse 10
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Who would dare
to help a me
or a you?
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Verse 11
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Anyone you ask upon
would offer to help
but would they do?
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Verse 12
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No those who dare
offer not, nor ask
they mount their chariots
draw their swords
and slay the dragons;
then say to one and all
who now was it called?
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