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Green Lantern is famous for the oath he recites when he charges his ring. Originally, the oath was simple: ...and I shall shed my light over dark evil. For the dark things cannot stand the light, The light of the Green Lantern! (This oath was later given as an in-joke to Tomar-Re, Green Lantern of sector 2813, and the first other Lantern Hal Jordan met) In the mid-1940s, this was revised into the form that became famous during the Hal Jordan era: In brightest day, in blackest night No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil's might Beware my power, Green Lantern's light! http://www.answers.com/topic/green-lantern
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The Alan Scott Green Lantern's oath is given as "...and I shall shed my light over dark evil. For the dark things cannot stand the light, The light of the Green Lantern!" What bothers me is the "...and" part. That implies that something else came before it, so what we see is apparently a partial oath. What is the rest of the oath??? Maybe the oath is given in that way to emulate archaic verses from the Judaeo-Christian Bible, where a sentence is in addition to all that came before it. If so, I don't like it. If not, I'd like to know the rest of the oath!
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