may have been inherent
in our circumstances..."
twilight in the valley of the tombs, palmyra ©azar
" For years we lived anyhow
with one another
in the naked desert,
under indifferent heaven.
By day the hot sun fermented us;
we were dizzied by the beating wind.
At night we were stained by dew,
and shamed into pettiness
by
the innumerable silence of stars.
We were a self-centered army
without parade
or gesture,
devoted to freedom,
the second of man's creed,
a purpose so ravenous that it devoured
all our strength,
a hope so transcendent
that our earlier ambitions
faded
in its glare."
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