Drowning Girl Bertolt Brecht

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Once she had drowned and started her slow descent
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Down the streams to where the great rivers broaden
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Oh, the open sky chant most magnificent
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As if it was acting as her body's guardian

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Wreck and duck weed slowly increased her weight
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By clasping her in their slimy grip
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Through her limbs, the cold blooded fishes played
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Creatures and plant life kept on, thus obstructing her last trip

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And the sky that same evening grew dark as smoke
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And its stars through the night kept the brightness still soaring
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But it quickly grew clear when dawn now broke
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To see that she had one further morning

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Once her pallid trunk had rotted beyond repair
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It happened quite slowly that she slipped from God's thoughts
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First with her face, then her hands, right at the last with her hair
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Leaving those corpse-choked rivers just one more corpse