Pass On the Torch

Pass on the torch
Men go off to fight
Families sit on the porch
Waiting, night after night.1

Pass on the torch
Wars past remembered still
Memories: minds they fill
With horrors of long ago
Things of which we'll never know.
Of hardship suffering and loss.2

Pass on the torch
On gravestones there creeps up moss
Signifying the passing of time
And the price paid for our terrible crime
Of hatred anger and unrest.3

Pass on the torch
Be ready to take it
Keep it burning.
Will I make it
Home again
To see the sunshine and the rain
To love, to laugh, to live.4

Pass on the torch
Keep on fighting
Don't let it burn down
Keep on lighting.
Fuel it with the blood of good men
Who will not come come again.
Pass on the torch.

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