| Who put an end to all the beauty???
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| The splendour of the days gone by…
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| It’s mild and steady glow that lit up the gloomy loneliness.
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| What could turn all the warm and true happiness
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| Into cold desperate tears without end.
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| What made the strong, tough man become again
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| a scared little boy???
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| I watch out over the desert of Death.
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| It’s silent, barren landscape surrounds me…
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| I feel cold…
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| The burning sun, always shining brightly,
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| Giving me warmth and light…
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| Tell me, is it gone for ever???
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| Has its vitalizing warmth for ever been extinct
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| By gloomy, heavy fog.
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| Again I feel the mortal horror bite me As I stare at all these deaths
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| Which were once full of life,
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| Which were once life itself…
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| The birds under the sky have fallen in the dark,
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| Their wings, deprived of their strength, can’t carry them any more…
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| Birdsongs have died away into silence,
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| Slowly died away has every joyous symphony…
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| The wild beasts are not to be seen any more,
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| To their burrows they have returned to find peace for time indefinite…
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| The acres of flowery meadows,
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| The flowers have bowed their heads to the ground,
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| And have all returned to earth…
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| Just the thistles and thorns are still standing erect
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| As I stand like a withered rose
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| Alone with all my pain…
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| To the brim full of sorrow, wounded and forgotten…
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| But always carrying my remembrance
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| Of a Hope that never dies… |