And the single string of the marine trumpets.
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
O mouths humanity seeks a new language
Beyond the reach of grammarians
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.
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