Sacrificial, the payment,
Paid in blood and bone and flesh,
Demanded by Marianne.
Paid in full, this price must be,
Lest all hope of liberty
For one's own heirs-presumptive,
Find abnegated, one will.
Paid in full, this price will be,
In the flesh and blood and bone
Of those noble and brave few.
Paid in full, for progeny,
With visions of liberty,
Give, they did, their last full measure of
Atone in full, for sins, vague,
Arbitrary, and fickle,