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All is cold hard beauty, |
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pain is never done |
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And we remain clothed in space |
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Forming from space |
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Space we come and return |
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And I saw within the mystery of god |
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In the midst of the southern breezes |
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A wondrously beautiful image |
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It had a human form |
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and it's countenance was of such beauty |
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That I could have more easily gazed at the sun |
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Than in that face |
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For a broad golden ring circled it's head |
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In this ring above the face there |
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appeared a second countenance |
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Like that of an elderly man |
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It's chin and beard resting on the crown |
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of her first face |
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And on both sides of the figure a wing |
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grew out of the shoulders |
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The wings rose above the face |
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and were joined there |
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Then at the top part of the wing |
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on the curve appeared an eagle's head |
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Its eyes were like fire and in them the brilliance of angels |
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streamed forth from the mirror |
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On the part of the left wing's curve |
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there was soothed a human head |
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Which shone like the gleaming of the stars |
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Both faces were turned towards the east |
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And from the shoulders of the figure |
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a wing extended to its knees |
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The figure was wrapped in a garment |
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that shone like the sun |
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Its hands carried the lamb |
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which shone like a brilliant day |
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The figure's feet trod upon a monster of black |
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A serpent had fastened its teeth into it |
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And its body was wound around the wound |
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Its tail extended to the left |
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It said "I am the highest in fiery power |
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I have kindled every spark of life |
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I am it, nothing that is deadly |
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I decided on all reality |
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With my wings I fly above this little world |
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With wisdom have I put the universe in order |
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I am the fiery life of essence |
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I am a flame beyond the beauty even of the meadows |
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It is I who gleam in the waters |
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It is I that burn in the sun |
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It is I that burn in the moon |
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It is I that burn in the stars |
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With every breeze as with invisible life |
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that contains everything |
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It is I that awaken every thing to life |
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The air lives by turning green and being in bloom |
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And the waters flow as if they were alive |
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The sun lives in it's light |
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and the moon is enkindled |
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After it's disappearance once again by the light |
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Of the sun so that the moon is again revived |
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The stars too give the light with their beaming |
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I have established pillars that bear the entire globe |
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In the same way too the body envelopes the soul |
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And maintains it so that the soul will never blow away" |
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And all is cold hard beauty, |
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pain is never done |
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Never done |
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