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Across the season’s endless tides
These dervish days are spinning,
Most wonderful and curious –
The skulls beneath are grinning
Lost in seas of colour,
A Ship of Fools; an Ocean of Stars;
We shall all escape the grasp of Time –
We are beautiful and bizarre…