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GOD SAVE THE KING TO THE REGAL SON OF ZWELITHINI HAIL A BULL IS CHOSEN TO PROTECT THE CALVES LEOPARD-CLAD LEADER SOUTH AFRICA’S FRUIT OF THE WOMB DAY OF REJOICING FOR THE ZULU PEOPLE IN THIS REIGN AS A NEW SPEAR IS RAISED VELDT BLOOMS IN RAINFALL NEW ELEPHANTS DANCE SPRINGBOKS BOUND ZEBRAS FROLIC TRUE BROTHERHOOD RETURNS THE LAND RESTS RIVERS OF WATER ADORN THE DESERT DUST FROM AFRICA MIGRATES TO LANDS FERTILIZING THEIR OWN SOIL A GIFT OF A LION’S PAW IN HEALING PAST WOUNDS JUSTICE AND MERCY MUST AGREE KINGLY WISDOM SITS AS A SOLID GOLD BAND ADORNING HIS BROW ITS BEAUTY LOVED BY ALL FEW TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH FOR ITS POWER EXCEEDS THE HORIZON’S WIDTH MAY TRUTH ENCIRCLE YOUR LANDS AS HEAVEN’S KRAAL WHEN OLD PATHS ARE LOST THE WAY FORWARD IS TO HONOR THE PAST COWHIDE SHIELDS AND WOODEN SPEARS OVERCAME RIFLES AS WIND BLOWING CHAFF FOR THE WARRIORS SHARED ONE HEART FIRE WARMS AND BRINGS LIGHT WHEN ITS CONTAINED YET A BURNT HOUSE COMES FROM SCATTERED COALS MORNING’S LIGHT OF DAY GIVES REVELAT...

LIFE HURTLES FORWARD WITH NO COMMAS OR PERIODS WHILE WE AWAIT YOUR REIGN, LORD WHICH THIN LIE BIT WHEN I FORSOOK THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD? IN ITS ID-SCORED CANYON I LONGED FOR DARK URGES TO CONCEAL MY FEARS INIQUITY'S GREED  TORE AT MY SOUL A MIND GNARLED SWARMING WITH NEEDS FORGETS ITS MAKER HUMAN'S DUALITY  CONTESTS GOD'S STATION ASSAULTING THE HOLY LIGHT OF HEAVEN ISAAC'S AGE  IS A DANGER TO BABYLON IN LEAN TIMES HUNGER CAN BE NAMED AN ANGEL LIFTS HEARTS  OF TIMID WARRIORS JUDGED BY CORN AND WINE OF EL MIGHTY MEN AND WOMEN SHOUT BY A PLED WORD GREATER THE MIGHT VOID OF SIN SPECIE FROM BROKEN TENETS TIRE OUT KEEN EYES BURNED RETINAS  BLUR HOPE TO WRATH MAKER THEM THE WILD LION STALLS BUT STOPS NOBODY FROM ANY GODLY CALL PALE FROM WEAK LIGHT ASH SOULS IN BASALT MOURN BOIL SPECIAL SALVE PURGE OUR EVIL CLEANSE MAN DULY A WHIR OF FINS PAINT THE CURRENT WHITE IN DEWY CLOTHS THE ABELS CRY OUT  FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AMID THE IRON ECHOES ELI UNDONE AT HIS SONS MET OUR ...