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V. The Hollow Men

Here we go round the prickly pear

  • Prickly pear
  • prickly pear

Here we go round the prickly pear At five o’clock in the morning.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long

Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is Life is For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

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