Really. Here is the accepted one. The one in Arabic is more succinct 👏
The eleventh article of the Barlow translation has no equivalent whatever in the Arabic. The Arabic text opposite that article is a letter from Hassan Pasha of Algiers to Yussuf Pasha of Tripoli.
You picked the fantasy version.
President Adams was a practicing Christian. But he was also a very educated man, and knew what religion could do if allowed to control govt. In fact many of the Founding Fathers where Deists and followed no dogma of any kind. They let reason guide their belief instead of dogma.
...my friend, we thought they'd never end
we'd sing and dance forever and a day
we'd live the life we choose
we'd fight and never lose
but that was then and now we've lost our way.
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The eleventh article of the Barlow translation has no equivalent whatever in the Arabic. The Arabic text opposite that article is a letter from Hassan Pasha of Algiers to Yussuf Pasha of Tripoli.
You picked the fantasy version.
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796e.asp
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli
we'd sing and dance forever and a day
we'd live the life we choose
we'd fight and never lose
but that was then and now we've lost our way.