Joanna Newsom - Look And Despair

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the cause is ozymandian .
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the mapa sacra continent
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is sanded and bevelled ,
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the land lorn and levelled
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by some unrecorded and powerful hand

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where all of the twenty thousand attending your footfall
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and the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls ,
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and the records they left are cryptic at best ,
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lost in obsolescence .
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the text will not yield , nor x ray reveal
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with any fluorescence
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where the hand of the master begins and ends .

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“it’s alright , ”
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and “it’s all over now , ”
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and boarded the plane ,
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his belt unfastened;
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the boy was known to show unusual daring .
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and , called a boy ,
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this older man confounding tammany hall
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( in whose employ
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king tamanend himself preceded johns fall ) .