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Brothers, let us glorify freedom’s twilight –

the great, darkening year.

Into the seething waters of the night

heavy forests of nets disappear.

O Sun, judge, people, your light

is rising over sombre years

Let us glorify the deadly weight

the people’s leader lifts with tears.

Let us glorify the dark burden of fate,

power’s unbearable yoke of fears.

How your ship is sinking, straight,

he who has a heart, Time, hears.

We have bound swallows

into battle legions - and we,

we cannot see the sun: nature’s boughs

are living, twittering, moving, totally:

through the nets –the thick twilight - now

we cannot see the sun, and Earth floats free.

Let’s try: a huge, clumsy, turn then

of the creaking helm, and, see -

Earth floats free. Take heart, O men.

Slicing like a plough through the sea,

Earth, to us, we know, even in Lethe’s icy fen,

has been worth a dozen heavens’ eternity.

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