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"The Burning."

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"In the numb,
numberless days there

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were disasters in the
distance, strange upheavals.

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No one understood them.

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At night the sky was
scored with light

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for the far plains of the
planet buckled and burned.

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In the dawns were intervals of
darkness on the scorched sky,

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clusters of clouds, and
eclipse and cinders descending.

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Nearer in the noons the air
lay low and ominous and inert.

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And eventually at evening
or morning or midday

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at the shear wall
of the wood were

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shapes in the shadows
approaching always

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and always alien and alike.

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And in the foreground
the fields were

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fixed in fire and the flames
flowered in our flesh."

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That was very appropriate.

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It's a war poem and I heard the
sounds of war in the distance

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there.

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