The Envoy Of Mr Cogito Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EA FG AH IJKA LM NLO PQORI ST UVAW WX YZA2 S| Go where those others went to the dark boundary | A |
| for the golden fleece of nothingness your last prize | B |
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| go upright among those who are on their knees | C |
| among those with their backs turned and those toppled in the dust | D |
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| you were saved not in order to live | E |
| you have little time you must give testimony | A |
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| be courageous when the mind deceives you be courageous | F |
| in the final account only this is important | G |
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| and let your helpless Anger be like the sea | A |
| whenever your hear the voice of the insulted and beaten | H |
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| let you sister Scorn not leave you | I |
| for the informers executioners cowards they will win | J |
| they will go to your funeral with relief will throw a lump of earth | K |
| the woodborer will write your smoothed over biography | A |
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| and do not forgive truly it is not in your power | L |
| to forgive in the name of those betrayed at dawn | M |
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| beware however of unnecessary pride | N |
| keep looking at your clown's face in the mirror | L |
| repeat I was called weren't there better ones than I | O |
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| beware of dryness of heart love the morning spring | P |
| the bird with an unknown name the winter oak | Q |
| light on a wall the splendour of the sky | O |
| they don't need your warm breath | R |
| they are there to say no one will console you | I |
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| be vigilant when the light on the mountains gives the sign arise and go | S |
| as long as blood turns in the breast your dark star | T |
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| repeat old incantations of humanity fables and legends | U |
| because this is how you will attain the good you will not attain | V |
| repeat great words repeat them stubbornly | A |
| like those crossing the desert who perished in the sand | W |
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| and they will reward you with what they have at hand | W |
| with the whip of laughter with murder on a garbage heap | X |
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| go because only in this way you will be admitted to the company of cold skulls | Y |
| to the company of your ancestors Gilgamesh Hector Roland | Z |
| the defenders of the kingdom without limit and the city of ashes | A2 |
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| Be faithful Go | S |
Zbigniew Herbert
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