Beautiful heaven, true heaven, look how I change!
After such arrogance, after so much strange
Idleness - strange, yet full of potency -
I am all open to these shining spaces;
Over the homes of the dead my shadow passes,
Ghosting along - a ghost subduing me. (Paul Valéry)

Beautiful heaven, true heaven, look how I change! After such arrogance, after so much strange Idleness - strange, yet full of potency - I am all open to these shining spaces; Over the homes of the dead my shadow passes, Ghosting along - a ghost subduing me.

Paul Valéry

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