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Nikos Kazantzakis

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Descend you weary-laden, descend in the dark earth,
help me to finish swiftly my dread master's shroud,
let each hem hold my pain, each corner hide a crow,
a lean, voracious crow to peck his heart out bit by bit.
--
Slave's prayer, Book XI, line 708

 
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