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 </div><p></p>Ejire Araisokun<br>
The defense of our culture,<br>
The back-bone of our nature.<br>
Our mother is weary<br>
But steadfast in your tenacity.
<p>Edunjobi<br>
The gods are long dead,<br>
Yes! They’ve been buried<br>
With grudging bracelet hung on their neck<br>
In the sepulchre of blindness,<br>
Even their parched bones<br>
Are of no use to the starving puppy<br>
For it shrinks with crookedness.</p>
<p>Desolate we stand<br>
To scrape the eclipse on sky facade,<br>
But Tayelolu*;<br>
Serenity is the bead<br>
About your waist,<br>
Shall you kindle the surface<br>
Of our mountain<br>
With your sacred rod of statute<br>
Our land shall be transfigured.<!--more--></p>
<p>Akehinde gba egbon<br>
Omo oba Adegbite.<br>
Tradition and culture<br>
Makes your soul dance<br>
To their rudiments,<br>
If our culture is desecrated<br>
With alienated resource,<br>
You might never perceive<br>
Those rudiments again.</p>
<p>What if you’re banished?<br>
Our culture is the pedestal<br>
Behind your survival.<br>
I beseech you,do not leave us be<br>
For we shall drown in starvation,<br>
Pray the father, let our land be littered<br>
With modern plantation.<br>
For if you and Tayelolu shall co-operate,<br>
Serenity and culture shall generate.</p>
<blockquote><p>*Taiyelolu – white color on our flag which stands for peace<br>
*Akehinde – green which stands for agriculture</p></blockquote>
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