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AVE ATQUE VALE; TO H.B.S. by AUSTIN PHILIPS

First Line: WE WERE THREE MEN
Last Line: WE ARE THREE MEN.
Subject(s): FRIENDSHIP; MEN;
WE were three men,
Careless and free
Under God's sun:
Then we were one
That had been three.

Ye were two men,
That had been three,
That had been one:
For one was gone:
Ye were two men.

You are one man,
That have been three,
That have been one:
For two are gone.
You are one man.

We are three men;
Three men we be;
Once we were one,
But that is done.
We are three men.



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