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The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth.
Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wandering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again.