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DEJECTION - ZaunköniG - 09.08.2014 DEJECTION WE move dejected through a world of gloom ; While the sun shines we tread the dusty way, And all night long the sorrows of the day React themselves in visions that assume Wild, ghastly shapes, until the sleepless room Is like a cell where maniacs curse and pray, Tainting the air with flakes of fatal spume Breathed from sick lungs already in decay ; Our restless hearts beat fiercely up a scale Of misery, and on the highest note Will sometimes break and in a moment end ; But the sad lips will mostly smile and pale, And the voice frolic in the aching throat, For so we smother what we cannot mend. |