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Leonard Cohen - Villanelle For Our Time Lyrics

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  • From bitter searching of the heart,
  • Quickened with passion and with pain
  • We rise to play a greater part.
  • This is the faith from which we start:
  • Men shall know commonwealth again
  • From bitter searching of the heart.
  • We loved the easy and the smart,
  • But now, with keener hand and brain,
  • We rise to play a greater part.
  • The lesser loyalties depart,
  • And neither race nor creed remain
  • From bitter searching of the heart.
  • Not steering by the venal chart
  • That tricked the mass for private gain,
  • We rise to play a greater part.
  • Reshaping narrow law and art
  • Whose symbols are the millions slain,
  • From bitter searching of the heart
  • We rise to play a greater part.

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