Continuing the story, humanity stumbles -
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gone is the glory, there's a far distant rumble.
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The clouds have gathered and exploded now:
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axes shattered, there is no North or South.
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Far off, the ice is foundering slowly,
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the ice is turning to water,
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the ice is turning to water.
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The water rushes over all
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cities crash in the mighty wave;
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the final man is very small,
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plunging in for his final bathe.
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This is the ending of the beginning,
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this is the beginning of the end,
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middle of the middle, mid-point, end and start:
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the first peak rises, forces the waves apart.
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Far off, the ice is now re-forming:
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poles are fixed once more,
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water's receding, like death-blood.
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And when the water falls again,
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all is dead and nobody lives.
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And then he said:
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'Every step appears to be
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the unavoidable consequence of the preceding one,
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and in the end there beckons more and more clearly
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total annihilation'
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This is the ending of the beginning,
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this is the beginning of the end,
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And when the water falls again,
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all is dead and nobody lives.
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After The Flood
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