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Look And Despair by Joanna Newsom
Look And Despair
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The cause is Ozymandian.
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The mapa sacra continent
C G
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.
Bb Gm
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,"
C
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
Bb
(In whose employ
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King Tamanend himself preceded John’s fall).
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