| They have come to burn the orchards
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| They have come to burn the seeds
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| But the quicksands of denial
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| Are no fertile grounds for such deeds
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| And we walk in stray shafts of light
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| To the pyre glade
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| The plea is still in your eyes
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| What a fine father you would have made
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| Now you’ll be buried in your soldier’s tunic
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| And not many will attend
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| For what flowers would one pick
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| For a god who has met his end
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| And we who are not yet fallen
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| Remain grouped among the distant trees
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| Our cheeks still flushed with funeral wine
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| A bloodless oath, a black winter tulip
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| And some gentians to complete the bouquet
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| Your death has made me an accomplice
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| It has made us all recall the day
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| Your life remained but a flash
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| In a spark of black fire
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| Blot out all hesitance now, brothers
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| Blot out all doubt
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| For something is already slipping away
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| For something is already slipping away
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| Mit uns die Sonne, mit uns das Meer
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| Mit uns die Sonne, mit uns das Meer |