Purification Poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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After many battles the good angel killed the bad angel and threw his corpse in the river.

The waters were stained by a blood whose red wouldn't fade, and the fish all died.

But one day a light from nobody knew where arrived to illumine the world, and another angel nursed the wound of the fighter angel.

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