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Finity’s End is a far-traveling ship and wide space is the deep that she knows
Infinity’s black is the emblem she bears, and never a mark does it show
The stuff of dead suns is her iron and her steel; in a nova's light she was made
She set out to travel the day she was born, in the free-running, long-hauling trade
And no sun can hold us and keep us for long, for infinity’s ours, and infinity’s free.
And no star can own her and no world’s her own, for Finity’s End is she.
The Company thought that they’d make them a law and have all the ships for their own
“You’re Company ships now and Company crews, you’ll pay us and serve us alone.”
James Robert the First was her captain that day, and he sent to all ships in the deep:
“Farewell to their ports and good luck to them all, for what they can’t catch they can’t keep.”
And no sun can hold us and keep us for long, for infinity’s ours, and infinity’s free.
And no star can own her and no world’s her own, for Finity’s End is she.
And, wonder to tell, Mother Earth changed her mind, and called back her magistrates too,
For no ship would haul beyond Alpha or Pell, so no mail and no cargo got through.
Then Unionside came with their ships and their guns and closed up the ports one and all
“You’ll all haul for us now,” the Union men said, “You’ll come and you’ll go where we call.”
And no sun can hold us and keep us for long, for infinity’s ours, and infinity’s free.
And no star can own her and no world’s her own, for Finity’s End is she.
