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Vnv Nation
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Order is shattered in a strange guttural tone that resounded
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Along the walls of the houses, which seemed dead and deserted,
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While, behind the closed shutters, eyes watched the conquerors,
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Who, by right of war, were now masters of the city and of the lives
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And fortunes of it's people.
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In their darkened ruins the inhabitants have given way to the same
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Feeling of panic which is aroused by natural cataclysms those
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Devastating upheavals of the Earth, against which wisdom and
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Strength alike are of no avail.
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Though the same feeling is experienced wherever the established
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Order of things is upset, when security ceases to exist, when all that
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Was previously protected by the laws of man and nature is suddenly
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Placed at the mercy of brutal unreasoning force.
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The earthquake, burying a whole people beneath the ruins of their
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Houses, the river in spate, sweeping away the bodies of drowned
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Peasants, together with the carcasses of cattle and rafters torn from
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Roofs, and the victorious army slaughtering all who resist, making
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Prisoners of the rest, looting by right of the sword, and thanking their
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God to the sound of cannon.
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All these are terrifying scourges which undermine all our belief in
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Eternal justice and all the trust we have been taught to place in divine
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Protection and human reason.
VNV Nation - When is the Future?
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