XIII - The work is done. The hammer is laid down.

by Fernando Pessoa · 1920
Published 01/07/1920

The work is done. The hammer is laid down.

The artisans, that built the slow-grown town,

Have been succeeded by those who still built.

All this is something lack-of-something screening.

The thought whole has no meaning

But lies by Time's wall like a pitcher spilt.

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