Witnessed I've centuries, battles and crowds
still as once graven, quiet in hold,
motionless remembrance centuries old.

Foreign to turmoils of the human race proud,
disgrace and sorrow today still behold,
clandestine eye among history's folds.

Unwilling watcher to balcony bound
I listen to mistral scream from the shore.
Distant from welter which mazily roars,
Nothing upsets me nor really astounds.

So here stand carved in my frown,
disbelieving sneer of scorn
worn by millenary bore,
thousand pensive sunsets brown.

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Music and words by Frér.
Track 3 is freely based on "Pines of Rome" by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936).
Original illustration by Charles Meryon (1821-1868).