| There are moments in life
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| When man with his louse-ridden hair
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| Casts wild staring looks
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| At the green membranes of space: for he believes, he hears, somewhere ahead
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| The wry hoots of a phantom
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| He staggers and bows his head: what he has heard is the voice of his own
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| conscience
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| He is determined and alert
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| And with the speed of a madman he rushes out
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| Takes the first direction his wold state suggests
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| And bounds over the rough plains of the wield
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| But the yellow phantom never loses sight of him
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| Chasing him with equal speed
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| Sometimes on stormy nights
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| When legions of winged octopi
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| Which look like ravens at a distance
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| Hover above the clouds… moving ponderously towards the cities of men, there,
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| in the dark, their mission is to warn them…
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| On such nights the dark eyed grit, sees two beings passing by
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| One after another
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| And wiping a furtive tear of compassion: which flows out
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| From its frozen eye It shouts out «yes, certainly he deserves it,
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| it is only justice being done!"Having said that, he reassumes his grim
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| attitude
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| And continues to watch
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| And continues… to watch, trembling nervously, the manhunt
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| The phantom makes a clicking sound
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| With its tongue as if to tell itself it’s giving up the chase
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| His is the voice of the condemned
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| And when its dreadful shrieking penetrates the human heart
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| Man would prefer to have death as his mom
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| Than to have remorse as his son
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| I have seen him making for the sea
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| Climbing a jagged promontory
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| Lashed by the eyebrow of the surge
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| And flinging himself down, into the waves
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| The miracle is this: the corpse reappeared the next day
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| On the surface of the raging sea… Which had brought this flotsam of pale
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| flesh back to the shore
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| The man freed himself from his body’s imprint in the sand
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| He wrung the water from his drenched hair
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| The man freed himself
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| From his body’s imprint in the sand… Wrung the water from his drenched hair
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| And silently returned to the way of life |