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The silence of traitorous feet! / The silence of close-pent rage! / The roar, and the sudden heart-beat! / And the shot through the true heart going, / The truest heart of the age! / And the Nile serenely flowing!
Carnage and curses and cries! / He utters never a word; / Still as a child he lies; / The wind of the desert is blowing / Across the dead man of the Lord; / And the Nile is softly flowing.