novus ordo sæclorum

to be yourself and live by light and reason
is simple enough but there are those who think
that this life in and of itself is treason
and other crimes at which they will not wink

those who would govern us from the inside
wish for a simple and obedient mind
that will from them have not a thing to hide
and to the world will make its owner blind

to be a tyrant is a simple human thing
but to control a mind now that's divine
such power as that gives even the meanest wing
and strength to hold all subjects to the line

yet even the secret policeman wants to be
enrolled among the numbers of the free