Death will never defeat us

Death will never defeat us; I sing the song of the fire

Death is fuel to inspire us; my heart is the heart of the pyre

We burn as flesh and spirit; the world will know our names

We rise as our ancestors rose; we rise in the midst of the flames.

As we are born and reborn, we feel the flames of the forge

Our choices strike like the hammer, our souls are folded as swords

By life and pressure and fire, created and moulded and honed

We perfect and refine and define, from birth through death to unknown.

Call it Glory or Arete, we know what is it that we seek

The power to perfect and inspire, to build up the strong and the weak

You raise your voice up in song for me, I hold out my hand to reach

Through mind and heart and soul, all of our Virtues to teach.

Death will never defeat us; I sing the song of the fire

Our lives ascending immortal; our legacies made to inspire

Our children hear our stories, and learn and share their own

The net we make is not broken, the tools we create are passed on.