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               Worlds I would destroy for ever,
               Since I can create no world,
               Since my call they notice never,
               Coursing dumb in magic whirl.

               Dead and dumb, they stare away
               At our deeds with scorn up yonder;
               We and all our works decay --
               Heedless on their ways they wander.

               Yet their lot I would share never --
               Swept on by the flooding tide,
               On through nothing rushing ever,
               Fretful in their Pomp and Pride.

               Swiftly fall and are destroyed
               Halls and bastions in their turn;
               As they fly into the Void,
               Yet another Empire's born.

               So it rolls from year to year,
               From the Nothing to the All,
               From the Cradle to the Bier,
               Endless Rise and endless Fall.

               So the spirits go their way
               Till they are consumed outright,
               Till their Lords and Masters they
               Totally annihilate.

— Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Feelings , 1836