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Veils enforce

Streets are ruled

Steel on spine

Crowds are schooled

Truth is caught

Dragged and used

Youth resist

Stones are thrown

Walls are marked

Not with throne

Only fire

Flesh and screams

Laws recite

Men obey

Clerics judge

Who must pay

Courts stay quiet

Whips reply

Republic lashings

Flags deceive

Clerics crown

What we grieve

Names erased

None are spared

Oil for blood

Words are banned

Fathers hang

By command

Gallows rise

By decree

Republic lashings

Books are chains

March of boots

Praise in vain

Rise begins

Thrones collapse