I look on high;
Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled
The veil of life and death?
(Mont Blanc)
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Be it not said, thought, understood --
Then it will be -- good night.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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At last, I told them what is death.
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