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Do you recall our first visit here?
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History had not yet begun.
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We let mornings and evenings go by,
and waited.
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lt took a long time for the river to find
its bed and the stagnant water to flow.
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Valley of the primeval river.
One day, l still remember...
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the glacier melted
and the icebergs drifted to the north.
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A tree passed by, still green,
with an empty bird's nest.
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Only the fish had leapt
over a myriad of years.
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Then came the moment
when the bees drowned.
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Some time later,
the two stags fought on the bank.
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Then the flies and the antlers,
like branches, flowing down the river.
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All that ever grew again was grass...
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growing over the bodies of wild cats,
wild boar and buffaloes.
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One morning, out of the savannah,
its forehead smeared with grass...
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appeared the biped,
our image, so long awaited.