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I recall that man and not two centuries	A
have passed since I saw him	B
he went neither by horse nor by carriage	C
purely on foot	D
he outstripped	E
distances	F
and carried no sword or armour	G
only nets on his shoulder	G
axe or hammer or spade	H
never fighting the rest of his species	A
his exploits were with water and earth	I
with wheat so that it turned into bread	J
with giant trees to render them wood	K
with walls to open up doors	L
with sand to construct the walls	M
and with ocean for it to bear	N
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I knew him and he is still not cancelled in me	O
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The carriages fell to pieces	F
war destroyed doors and walls	M
the city was a handful of ashes	F
all the clothes turned to dust	P
and he remains to me	O
he survives in the sand	Q
when everything before	R
seemed imperishable but him	B
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In the going and coming of families	A
at times he was my father or kinsman	S
or perhaps it was scarcely him or not	T
the one who did not return to his house	U
because water or earth swallowed him up	V
or a tree or an engine killed him	B
or he was the saddened carpenter	G
who went behind the coffin without tears	W
someone in the end who had no name	X
except those that metal or timber have	Y
and on whom others gazed from on high	Z
without seeing the ant	A2
for the anthill	B2
and so that when his feet did not stir	G
because the poor exhausted one had died	C2
they never saw what they had not seen	D2
already there were other feet where he'd been	E2
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The other feet were still his	F2
and the other hands	G2
the man remained	H2
when it seemed that now he was done for	R
he was the same once more	R
there he was digging again at the earth	I
cutting cloth minus a shirt	I2
there he was and was not like before	R
he had gone down and was once more	R
and since he never owned graveyards	J2
or tombs nor was his name carved	K2
on the stone he sweated to quarry	O
no one knew he had come	L2
and no one knew when he died	C2
so that only when the poor man could	K
he returned to life once more without it being noted	M2
	-
He was the man no doubt of it without heritage	N2
without cattle without a flag	O2
and he was not distinguished from others	P2
the others who were him	B
from the heights he was grey like the subsoil	Q2
tanned like the leather	G
he was yellow reaping the wheat	R2
he was black down in the mine	S2
he was the colour of stone on the fortress	T2
in the fishing boat the colour of tuna	U2
and the colour of horses in the meadow	V2
how could anyone distinguish him	B
if he was inseparable elemental	W2
earth coal or sea vested in man	S
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Where he lived whatever	G
a man touched grew	X2
the hostile stones	Y2
quarried	V2
by his hands	G2
took on order	G
and one by one formed	V2
the right clarity of a building	Z2
he made bread with his hands	G2
moved the engines	A3
the distances peopled themselves with towns	B3
other men grew	X2
bees arrived	V2
and by man's creating and breeding	Z2
spring walked the market squares	W
between bakeries and doves	C3
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The maker of loaves was forgotten	D3
he who quarried and journeyed beating down	E3
and opening furrows transporting sand	V2
when everything existed he no longer existed	V2
he gave his existence that's all	F3
He went elsewhere to labour and at last	V2
he was dead rolling	Z2
like a stone in the river	G
death carried him downstream	G3
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I who knew him saw him descend	V2
till he was no longer except what he left	V2
roads he could scarcely know	V2
houses he never ever would live in	E2
	-
I turn to see him and I await him	B
	-
I see him in his grave and resurrected	V2
	-
I distinguish him among all	F3
who are his equals	H3
and it seems to me it cannot be	O
that like this we go nowhere	N
that to survive like this holds no glory	O
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I believe that this man	S
must be enthroned rightly shod and crowned	V2
I believe that those who made such things	I3
must be the masters of all these things	I3
And that those who made bread should eat	V2
	-
And those in the mines must have light	V2
	-
Enough now of grey men enslaved	V2
	-
Enough of the pale 'missing ones'	A3
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Not another man passes except as a king	Z2
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Not a single woman without her crown	E3
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Golden gauntlets for every hand	V2
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Fruits of the sun for all the unknowns	Y2
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I knew that man and when I could	V2
when he still had eyes in his head	V2
when he still had a voice in his mouth	J3
I searched for him among tombs and I said	V2
grasping his arm that was not yet dust	V2
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'All will be gone you will live on	K3
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You ignite life	L3
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You made what is yours '	-
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So let no one trouble themselves when	M3
I seem to be alone and am not alone	N3
I am with no one and speak for them all	F3
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Some listen to me without knowing	Z2
but those I sing those who do know	V2
go on being born and will fill up the Earth	I

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