Onward, onward, ever onward! Where are you running to?
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Streets and lanes, to the right or the left
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May the heavens, may the sun show us foolish ones
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Do you find completeness, then,
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Spending days busily working?
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They're frauds! They're fakes! Everyone! Everyone!
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Somebody flatters everybody!
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Unknown, someone makes the world turn!
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That's how it is, "The Way of the World." Sure enough!
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Funny, happy, hopping on the heath.
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Empty-headed and bare naked, still live.
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We have no questions, just a big dream
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That strangles us! Madness!
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It lies with the rye bread as a showpiece
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Alone it plays on the plate like rubble and ash!
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Now I have nothing! Where is it? I know not where?
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"The importance of my life"
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We search! We rummage! Wherever it may be!
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The inside of drawers, skirts or pocketbooks.
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Terrible! Horrible! We rush! We search!
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An invisible devil shall come with much loud thunder.
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We must find it or flee before he devours us!
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