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I will celebrate myself again |
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Naked dying, proud of what I am |
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I dream and invite my fading soul |
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Observing human sphere at all atone |
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Swanlike I turn away from your despair |
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Can't you see there's no beg for pardon |
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Swanlike I turn away from your despair |
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A noble heart forever dying |
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Under a fading lamp half dressed my brain |
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Idling on some compulsive remain |
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I towel my shaven jaw and stare |
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Riveted by a dark exhausted flair |
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Swanlike I turn away from your despair |
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Naked dying, proud of what I am |
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Swanlike I turn away from your despair |
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Idling on some compulsive remain |
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I look into my glass and view my wasting skin |
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And say "would God it came to pass" |
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My heard has shrunk as thin |
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For then I undistrest by hearts grown cold to me |
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Could lonely wait my endless rest with equanimity |
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For the time being I return |
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Now plainly in the mirror of my soul |
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I read that I have looked my last on youth |
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And little more for they are not made whole |
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That reach the age of fallen Christ |
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A silent flight takes me away |
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From this ignorant world |
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A final cry deep in that night |
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Swanlike I turn away |
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My inspiration |
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Burning flames; glistening sounds |
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Sapphire-dark and marrow-deep, silence around us |
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Under a fading moon |
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Will you ever be swanlike |