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Slowly through the scented gloom / Crept once more the ruddy gleam [1]
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream [2]
a vision softly creeping / Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain / Still remains [3]

Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day [4]
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; [5]
Running, leaping, / And carousing in sin. [6]
I'm taking walks in my dead garden [7]

Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream? [8]

I steal a few breaths / From the world for a minute / And then I'll be nothing forever [9]
Oh! No mortal could support the horror [10] life can only materialize from the rotting cadaver [11]

what did you achieve?
You are exhausting [yourself with] ceaseless toil, [12]
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil [13]

HOW soon doth man decay ! [14]
My friend, whom I love, has turned to clay [12]
He will laugh thee to scorn. [15]
changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born. [16]

In little ways, when everything stays [17]
Together, We'll Shine [18]
someone will remember us
I say
even in another time [19]



[1] Source: The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907) by Alfred Noyes
[2] Source: Letters Written in Sweden (1796) by Mary Wollestonecraft
[3] Source: The Sound of Silence (1964) by Simon & Garfunkel
[4] Source: Darkness (1816) by Lord Byron
[5] Source: Book of Job (700 - 400BC) 
[6] Source: The Black Riders, and Other Lines (1895) by Stephen Crane
[7] Source: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2019) by Ezra Furman
[8] Source: A Dream Within a Dream (1849) by Edgar Allan Poe
[9] Source: Me and My Husband (2018) by Mitski
[10] Source: Frankenstein of the Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Shelley
[11] Source: The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Frantz Fanon (Original Title: Les Damnés de la Terre)
[12] Source: Epic of Gilgamesh (1300 - 1000BC) translated from Babylonian by Andrew R. George
[13] Source: Hamlet (1599 - 1601) by William Shakespeare
[14] Source: Mortification (1652) by George Herbert
[15] Source: Book of Sirach (200 - 175BC)
[16] Source: Easter 1916 (1916) by William Butler Yeats
[17] Source: Everything Stays (2015) written by Rebecca Sugar, sung by Olivia Olson
[18] Source: Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) written by Yōji Enokido (榎戸 洋司), directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara (幾原 邦彦) (Original Title: 少女革命ウテナ)
[19] Source: Fragment (630 – 570 BC) by Sappho, translated from Ancient Greek by Anne Carson

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