| The globe is still at hand - with such a map of the world
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| What strategies, plans and dreams can afford
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| Another insignia of power, a sable robe
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| Thick, spiky hair and a gesture of the hand without trembling
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| The clock is still at hand, it's still early
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| Confidence in the cue movement is not picking up
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| Sight - the mirror of the soul - sees everything even in a dream
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| Whose peace is brought by the number and the letter
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| They have already done so much for their young years
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| The wax is lost to history in their unmistakable traces -
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| This is George de Selve - a promising diplomat
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| And Jean de Dinteville - the French ambassador
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| Discreet glamor - only an echo of dignity
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| Turkish carpet, Italian lute - a sign of familiarity
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| In silent lips, the taste of absolute victory
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| In attitudes - greatness - achieved in life
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| The heavy curtain supports both what it hides
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| They look ahead, confident of their righteousness
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| After all, diplomacy rules everything that is alive today
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| And they - the flower of sixteenth-century diplomacy!
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| They don't know pain, plague, or runny nose
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| The whims of the great - the world will always satisfy!
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| This is George de Selve - a promising diplomat
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| And Jean de Dinteville - the French ambassador
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| But in a tuned lute the string suddenly breaks
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| And the edges of the cards turn yellow in the open knowledge of the book ...
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| A hand wanders involuntarily behind the crucifix
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| The clock arrow starts faster and faster!
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| The terrible shape in front of them comes in half a step
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| And it destroys peace - is the artist fooling around?
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| No, it's not a joke! |
| You have to look at this shape from the side!
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| Just to see clearly it's a dead man's skull!
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| They were - and they are gone, ah - what a waste!
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| What were they called? |
| Who is aware of this today?
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| Ah! |
| George de Selve! |
| Promising diplomat ...
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| Ah! |
| Jean de Dinteville, French ambassador ... |