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Have you heard the sound of footsteps

As of soldiers marching on?

Lumbini

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Have you seen their banners waving?

Have you heard their battle song?

Lumbini

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Lumbini

Have you watched their blazing torches Lighting up their columns long?

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Have you heard the sound of footsteps

As of soldiers marching on?

Bodhgaya

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Yes, we heard their footsteps thunder In the watches of the night

Bodhgaya

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And we saw their banners waving

By their torches' flaring light

Bodhgaya

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And the stirring songs they shouted

Filled our hearts with strange delight

Sarnath

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Yes, we heard their footsteps thunder

In the watches of the night

Sarnath

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It was sad to see them marching

To some battlefield of pain,

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There to leave their youthful bodies

‘Mid the fallen and the slain

Kusinara

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That some earthly king or monarch

On his golden throne might reign

Kusinara

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It was sad to see them marching

To some battlefield of pain

Kusinara

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Nay, these are the Buddha's soldiers And the foe they seek to slay

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Is illusion's self that hinders Mankind's progress day by day

Kapilavastu

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Savatthi

Righteousness the sword they carry Wisdom's torch that lights their way

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Nay, these are the Buddha’s soldiers And the foe they seek to slay

Savatthi

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For no earthly king or monarch Do they march to meet the fight

Vesali

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But to spread the Buddha's Teaching In the darkness of our night

Rajgir

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And to crown the Truth triumphant In the splendor of Love's Light

Rajgir

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For no earthly king or monarch Do they march to meet the fight

Nalanda

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Bodhgaya

The End

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