| “The Holly Doctrine” by Shamela McClain You who the sun doth shined upon for centuries For millennia And even now. You who cannot be kept down. You who cannot be restrained You who cannot be ignored You who will always be imitated. Listen to your inner being Be set free. Learn from your own scholars Attend to your own needs Serve your own Or serve no more. You who are the first You who are the best You who are the greatest From you comes the rest. A surveyor of lands Doth set his eyes upon lands That are bare And imagine cities there With people do or dare And dare And do And build And be. To choose us. To imagine existing without Well people did And well And they begun to begin to Start over again And now here The choice be clear Serve our own Or serve no more. |

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