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Stub towers in the distance, |
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Riders cross the blasted moor |
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Against the horizon. |
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Fickle promises of treaty, |
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Fatal harbingers of war, futile orisons |
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Swirl as one in this flight, this mad chase, |
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This surge across the marshy mud landscape |
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Until the meaning is forgotten. |
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Hood masks the eager face, skin stretched and sallow, |
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Headlong into the chilling night, as swift as any arrow. |
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Feet against the flagstones, |
| [04:32.56] |
Fingers scrabbling at the lock, |
| [04:37.29] |
Craving protection. |
| [04:44.46] |
'Sanctuary!' croaks a voice, |
| [04:46.65] |
Half-strangled by the shock of its rejection. |
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Shot the bolt in the wall, rusted the key; |
| [05:06.28] |
Now the echoes of all frightful memory |
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Intrude in the silence. |
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What a crawl against the slope dark loom the gallows. |
| [05:23.81] |
One touch to the chapel door, how swiftly comes the arrow. |
| [06:15.86] |
"Compassion" you plead, |
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As though they kept it in a box |
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That's long since been empty. |
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I'd like to help you somehow, |
| [06:29.21] |
But I'm in the self-same spot: |
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My condition exempts me. |
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We are all on the run, on our knees; |
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The sundial draws a line upon eternity |
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Across every number. |
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How long the time seems, how dark the shadow, |
| [07:05.96] |
How straight the eagle flies, how straight towards his arrow. |
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How long the night is - why is this passage so narrow? |
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How strange my body feels, impaled upon the arrow. |