Peaceful Consent Xci

You are the midwife of a land full of promises The nation is spread-eagled on the delivery table Letting out cries of painful expectation and labour Prompting prayers and supplication for the new world For three decades and for four you have been judged To be the benchmark of qualification to serve the nation In modern corporations and state wise civil works In grapevine and apple-vine courts of principled bias For four decades and for five you have been expected To be the independent crop of people united in peace To be the economic pioneer of elephant strides attending To be the giant of Africa and democratic shepherd For three tenures and for four you have been civilized By democratic cultures and apples of good expectation By judicial interventions and constitutional advocacy By developing human rights and tricks of the new world For three camps of orientation and for four indeed You have been called up to serve the nation for good Even when you have been doctored in foreign lands Even though the ages tell the truth of the agents of peace