Around The Beggar From Luossa Cifras

[Verse 1]
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Round the beggar from Luossa people gathered in a ring,
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by the campfire they sat and heard his song.
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And of wayfarers and mendicants and every wondrous thing
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and of his longing he sang to them all night long.
 
[Chorus 1]
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“There is something beyond mountains, beyond flowers, beyond singing,
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there is something there behind the star, behind my burning heart.
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Hearken, something goes there whispering, goes there calling me and praying
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‘come to us, for of this earthly kingdom you are not a part.’
 
[Verse 2]
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I have listened to the tranquil waves that roll against the beach,
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to dream of wild seas’ rest has been my lot.
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And in spirit I have hastened towards the formless lands
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where the dearest thing we knew shall be forgot.
 
[Chorus 2]
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To a wild, eternal longing we were born by pallid mothers,
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from the labour pains of troubles rose our first and anguished cry.
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We were thrown on plains and mountains then, to play with all our brothers,
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and we played there elk and lion, beggar, god and butterfly.
 
[Verse 3]
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I sat silent by her side, she whose heart was like to mine,
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with hands so soft she tended to our nest.
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But I heard my heart then calling: ‘what thou ownest is not thine’
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and the spirit came and bore me off to rest.
 
[Chorus 3]
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What I love is far away beyond, concealed in distant darkness,
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and high and wonderful is my true way.
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And amid this clamour I am called to pray before the Heavens:
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What no-one has I want to own, take all the earth away!
 
[Verse 4]
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Follow, brother, beyond mountains, to the cool and peaceful rivers,
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where in beds of mountain garlands all sea slowly goes to sleep.
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Somewhere there beyond the heavens is my home, I have my mother,
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in the golden-sprinkled mists, dressed in rosy mantle deep.
 
[Chorus 4]
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May the black and salty waters cool the cheeks that burn with fever,
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let’s be miles away from life before the morning breaks above!
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Not of this world was I, brother; hardships without end I suffered
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for the sake of worries, faithlessness and of my burning love.
 
[Verse 5]
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By a shore all dressed in seashells stands a gate of roses heavy,
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therein sleep the mouldered shipwrecks, and the tired men find rest.
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Songs unheard and high there sing like violins in distant echoes
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under arches where eternal children live forever blessed.
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